Tacos All Around
This time, fans might get to cash in on a Taco Bell World Series promotion.
If any Detroit Tigers or St. Louis Cardinals player hits a home run to left or left center field during Tuesday night’s World Series Game 3 at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, all U.S. residents will have the opportunity to get a free taco at the fast food chain.
If the feat is accomplished, one free Seasoned Beef Crunchy Taco (retail value approximately 77 cents) will be available per person between the hours of 2 and 5 p.m. (local time) on Nov. 1. It's only one taco, regardless of the number of left or left center home runs hit.
“We can’t think of a more fitting way to celebrate America’s Favorite Pastime than by giving fans a chance of winning America’s favorite taco,” Bill Pearce, Taco Bell Corp.'s chief marketing officer, said in a press release. “Since we haven’t given away a free taco in previous World Series promotions, we felt this was the perfect time to ‘think outside the bun’ and open up the offer to include any home run over left or left center field.”
The company really could have to pay up this time. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, the majority of home runs at new Busch Stadium this season – the stadium’s first – were hit to left field: 94 to left field; 17 to center field and 65 to right field.
Previous Taco Bell World Series promotions have included requiring players to hit a certain target with their home runs, including a floating one outside San Francisco’s AT&T Park during the 2002 World Series.
CRAIG DAVIS In more than 33 years at the Sun Sentinel, Craig Davis has written about a wide variety of sports topics from baseball to yachting, fishing to triathlons, and also worked as a copy editor and page designer. Recently he reported on local sports, including running, swimming, cycling, equestrian and beach volleyball. He enjoys sports as a participant as well as a spectator, is active in the South Florida running scene plays in the curling club at Saveology Iceplex. This blog offers a glimpse at the business side of sports in the interest of enhancing enjoyment of the games and sporting options as a spectator as well as a participant.
