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Advertisement for Shotwell's Red Grange Milk Chocolate Nut Candy Bar, circa 1926.
Credit: Courtesy of Wheaton College Archives and Special Collections
The American advertising industry came of age in the 1920s, and during this great age of Ballyhoo, Red Grange joined Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, and other top athletes as a marketer's dream. One of the first athletes to have a personal representative, Grange endorsed everything from meatloaf to haberdashery, and had his own candy bar, produced by Shotwell Candy, which also issued a promotional series of sports cards devoted to the Galloping Ghost.