This is your chance to enjoy Bigelow Tea and meet Terry Francona of the Boston Red Sox! It’s our Bigelow Tea “Talk Sports and Drink Bigelow Green Tea with Terry Francona Sweepstakes.”

Look for this display at a store near you!

Don’t waste any time! Get in the game and enter to win by purchasing Bigelow Tea at Stop & Shop, using your ScanSaver card. You also can enter at the Courtesy Desk in the store or online at Bigelow Tea. This fantastic sweepstakes runs October 1^st to November 15^th.

FIVE Grand Prize Winners and a guest will be invited to “Talk Sports & Drink Bigelow Green Tea with Terry Francona” for an hour at Fenway Park in mid-January 2010. Displays are up now at Stop & Shop stores in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island – along with a coupon mailing to many Stop & Shop customers in Connecticut and Massachusetts!

So, check the mailbox and get to the store – and you and a guest could be enjoying Bigelow Tea with Terry Francona in January. What a fun and healthy way to start the New Year!

On a beautiful, sunny spring day in May, Bigelow Tea hosted a special event filled with a truly memorable day of fun and learning at Fenway: the oldest baseball park in our country.

The day’s events included tea education along with a Bigelow Tea tasting followed by a once in a lifetime talk with Terry Francona and concluding with a moving tour of Fenway Park.

Carrie Hammond, Marketing Manager, Terry Francona, Red Sox Manager, Sherri Luba, Marketing Administrative Assistant, Scott Ricci, Marketing Director

Red Sox Manager, Terry Francona, was a true gentleman; taking time to chat with us over his cup of Bigelow Green Tea with Pomegranate , answering questions, signing autographs and snapping pictures before going on air for his pre-game show on WEEI. We asked lots of fun questions such as:

Q: “What is your favorite memory of the game?”

A: Seeing the guys storm the field after the 2007 Series win, guys from 6 or more countries embracing in pure joy.

Q: “Who’s your favorite Yankee?”

A: Derek Jeter, great guy, amazing athlete.

Q: “Who’s first to the locker room before games?”

A: Dustin Pedroia, since day one in the majors and probably always will be, he gets everyone going!

The park tour followed with fun facts and lots of history. Did you know…

• The red seat in right field is a marker of the furthest hit ball?
• Ted Williams hit that ball 502 feet and the record stands to this day!
• The dots and dashes on the white stripes of the manual scoreboard are the initials of Mr. and Mrs. Yawkey in Morse code, former owners of the Red Sox!
• The waiting list to work behind the manual scoreboard is over 7,000 names long!!!

Our sincere thanks to the “Fenway “team” for ensuring the day went off without a hitch (or a strike) and our personal and heartfelt thanks to Terry Francona for making this day a true home run!!!

Carrie Hammond
Marketing Manager
Bigelow Tea