HOME & AWAY

It's a fighter plane... slow and sunny, and then bang! Wham! Boom! ...and then it goes dark. Dark! For maybe 10 seconds... And then when it comes back, there's the ballpark. And the crowd. Roaring.

"” Ted Williams

It begins with the crash. A fighter jet over Korea, a flash of light, a gut-wrenching explosion. Then, darkness. Silence. Followed by the roar of a ballpark crowd.

This is our opening, the visceral hook that poses the central question of our story. It is the vision Ted Williams himself demanded.

Align your brand with premium patriotic content celebrating military heritage through baseball.

The Numbers

• 71 Hall of Famers who served in wartime
• Premiering alongside the World Series and Veterans Day"”when 15M+ Americans are already watching baseball and honoring service
• Multi-generational audience appeal

The Ask

• Brand association (not product placement)
• Premiere event sponsorship
• AR/VR experience branding
• Hall of Fame installation presence

Integration Categories

Tiered sponsorship: $25K—$500K+

Civil War: The Birth

A leather ball arcs through winter sky. Christmas, 1862. Below, an ocean of blue uniforms parts as tens of thousands of voices rise at Hilton Head. For this moment, they are not soldiers but believers. The war will take 600,000 lives, but not this afternoon. Not this game.

When peace comes, veterans like Hall-of-Famer Morgan G. Bulkeley will unite these parallel passions and help found the National League, transforming a wartime comfort into peacetime communion. Healing a nation one pitch, one swing, one inning at a time.

WWI: Rivals in the Trenches

Baseball's most bitter enemies became brothers in the Army's Chemical Warfare Service. Their commanding officer: Major Branch Rickey"”the man who would later sign Jackie Robinson. A gas training accident involving Ty Cobb and Christy Mathewson would haunt both men"”and may have contributed to Mathewson's death from tuberculosis years later. War changes everything. War changed Rickey.

Interstitial: The Gathering Storm

From the Great War, we flow through time as baseball becomes the nation's constant. Decades pass, until the world is on the brink again. We see Jackie Robinson at sea, a civilian sailing home from Hawaii, when news of Pearl Harbor crackles over the ship's radio. We see Bob Feller rushing to enlist. And then there's Ted Williams. Young, brilliant, with only one goal: to be the greatest hitter who ever lived. War is an interruption. Duty is a delay. But destiny is coming for them all.

Joe Garagiola would spend decades on KMOX radio telling Yogi stories. The kid from across the street became the voice who painted the picture.

The man who signed Jackie: Branch Rickey. The same WWI veteran who commanded Cobb and Mathewson. War had taught Rickey what sacrifice looked like. Now he would ask Jackie to sacrifice his right to fight back"”for something bigger than both of them.

In 1947, Greenberg became one of the first players to publicly encourage Jackie Robinson"”connecting their parallel struggles against prejudice, passing the torch from one outsider to another.

Vin Scully joined the Dodgers broadcast booth in 1950"”three years after Jackie broke the barrier. A Navy veteran himself, every June 6 for decades, he told D-Day stories during broadcasts. The voices of the game painted imagery with words, bringing the ballpark to life in the imagination of millions. The veteran who honored those who saw action.

Jack Buck returns. The voice we met in Episode 1 on The Hill was wounded at that same bridge"”Remagen. The threads of this tapestry weave tighter. A St. Louis kid, a southpaw pitcher, and an engineer who would become a Giant"”all connected by one bridge, one moment, one impossible crossing.

The voices of the game: men who painted imagery with words, bringing the ballpark alive in the imagination of millions. Jack Buck would carry Remagen with him for 47 years behind the microphone.

We witness the reluctant warrior who just wanted to hit, now bleeding through bare hands at Fenway, reclaiming his identity swing by painful swing.

The explosion that began our story finds its answer in one defiant crack of his bat.

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