Before we enjoy a cup of baseball memorabilia coffee in the morning we have to find a pot to percolate.

  Vincent Marotta was the co-creator of the famed Mr. Coffee automatic brewing system. After the machine hit the market in 1972, Mr. Coffee machine Sales were good, but Marotta felt, to really make it a national brand, they needed a spokesman. Marotta, had signed with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1942, but was called to serve in World War II before spring training.

He was a big fan of Joe DiMaggio, and decided to recruit the former Yankee to be a spokesman.
 
 Now we need some coffee grinds to brew. This 3 pound size coffee can features a brightly colored “Youth League Baseball” illustration. In a 1966 promotion, Mickey Mantle invited "you to enter... The Butter-Nut Coffee Family Baseball Sweepstakes."

 The grand prize included; you and your family being a personal guest of Mickey Mantle at Yankee Stadium. The keepsake coffee tin was sold with a wrap around paper coupon for a special offer for a Rawlings Mickey Mantle baseball glove, and a little league baseball.

Living in the St. Louis area with his family, Stan Musial always worried about his baseball career, about getting hurt, and wanted a business to fall back on. After befriending Julius "Biggie" Garagnani, owner of Biggie's Steak House, Musial bought a house.

 Stan then spoke with Biggie about a partnership in the restaurant. Musial officially became Biggie's partner in January of 1949. This coffee mug is from Stan Musial & Biggies Steak House in St. Louis.

Don Heffner played in the Major Leagues for the Yankees, Browns, Athletics and Tigers from 1934-1944. in 1953 he secured a copyright to produce ceramic baseball gloves, and did so until 1958 when he returned to the Major Leagues as a coach.

 The Don Heffner of Monrovia Cal. ceramic baseball gloves were sold in souvenirs shops, and ballparks during the 1950's, and raised stitched baseball coffee mugs were part of the inventory.

In 1957 the Mickey Mantle 32 lane bowling center opened in Dallas Texas. The bowling center became part of a contract dispute in 1959. The Yankees wanted Mantle to take a $15.000 cut in pay, and Mantle said he would not take the cut, but deserved a $3,000. raise to $75,000. He publicly stated he would be more than happy to stay in Dallas and run his bowling alley rather than accept the pay cut.

 Two coffee cups were produced by Fire King. One a 200 Club cup, given as a gift to bowlers that threw a 200 game in league play. The other was a gift for bowlers that threw a 300 game.

Part of a six piece table settings this coffee mug was made for the Dallas based Mickey Mantle's Country Cookin' franchise. Mantle was named chairman of the board of ten restaurants and drew a yearly salary of $100,000. He was fired late in 1969 after the stock plummeted from $15.00 a share to $2.00. Despite coming up with the advertising slogan: "To get a better piece of chicken You'd have to be a rooster," Mantle officially resigned in 1970.

This Harry Caray's Chicago Spinners™ coffee mug features a spinning Baseball located at the top of the handle. Right handed coffee drinkers get to view the famous Harry Caray caricature Logo. Left handed drinkers, the "Harry Caray's Established 1987 Chicago" logo.

Harry Caray's Restaurant Group began when the first Harry Caray's Italian Steakhouse opened in Chicago's River North neighborhood in 1987. Located at 33 W. Kinzie St. it was once home to the notorious enforcer of the Al Capone gang, Frank Nitti. He lived in an apartment on the fourth floor with his wife Annette, who’s family owned the building which was built in 1895.

In 1987, New York Yankees first baseman Don Mattingly opened Mattingly’s 23 Restaurant & Lounge, at 1700 N. Morgan Center Drive, Evansville, Indiana. The 7,000 sq. ft. restaurant and lounge, featured a carpeted floor laid out like a baseball diamond, and two dugouts where you could sit.

 Mattingly's 23, which took its name from Mattingly's jersey number, seated 269 people and featured sports memorabilia throughout the establishment. Coffee cups were made available at the Souvenir stand (gift-shop) which also included; jackets, sweatshirts, t-shirts, caps, posters, baseball bat pens, mini bats, 1991 Coca-Cola Mattingly's 23 restaurant baseball card sets and more.

 In 2020 Cubs slugging second baseman Ian Happ partnered with Connect Roasters, a coffee roasting company that sends part of its sales to community organizations where it grows its coffee, to give back to COVID-19 relief efforts.

 Happ and Connect Roasters have released a line of coffee, Quarantine Coffee, where part of the sales will go directly to COVID-19 relief efforts. Each bag of coffee sells for $15 and $3 from each bag sold goes to COVID-19 relief charities.