Tacos are invited to the hall of fame.
For the past decade, Taco Bell has celebrated the MLB World Series by giving away free tacos whenever a player steals a base and celebrates : This year, the chain is teaming up with the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum to celebrate promotion.
The first base stolen during the 2021 World Series will be displayed at the hall of fame museum in Cooperstown, NY. Selon a press release, this is the 10th year that Taco Bell has stolen tacos for free bases.
Josh Rawitch, President of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, said, “In Cooperstown, we tell the story of the game on the field and baseball's impact on fans." Currently, this program has grown in popularity and is excited that as it enters its tenth year the hundreds of thousands of fans who visit the Museum in 2015 will be able to relive the exciting World Series moment this base represents. Over the past ten years, Taco Bell has recognized eight players for stealing bases during World Series.
When the players are just as excited as the fans to be a part of history, you're impacting the game in real time and in a real way, said Tracee Larocca, Taco Bell's head of brand creativity. In October 2007, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum partnered with Major League Baseball to send the 10th stolen base to Cooperstown and tell the story of Steal a Base Steal Taco' is an amazing honor and a true testament to connecting America's love of baseball and tacos, like only Taco Bell can.