Not often that a subject like this gets a major article.
The Mascot Whisperer
Dave Raymond practically invented the modern sports mascot. And over four decades, he has built a career on helping pro teams bring them to life.
By Max Rubin
For the primary 17 years of his profession, a person named Dave Raymond labored simply throughout the road, for the Philadelphia Phillies. There, Raymond portrayed a mascot. You might say he portrayed the mascot — within the pantheon of America’s furry avatars, none is extra iconic than the Phillie Phanatic, a lumpy, waddling, vibrant inexperienced birdlike creature with a giant, trumpeting snout and a pink tongue that unfurls like a celebration blower. Raymond taught the Phanatic what grew to become his signature strikes: how one can whomp his paunch, how one can suction a plunger to the top of a bald man, how one can stand at a distance and land rings on the plunger. His work was such a revelation that it not solely established the trade customary, it mainly established the trade — earlier than 1978, when the Phillies launched the Phanatic, pro-sports mascots have been nonetheless fairly uncommon.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/06/m...-phanatic.html
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