The first of the wave of costumed team mascots that inundated baseball in the late 1970s, the Chicken was the brainchild of Ted Giannoulas. After cutting his ties with the San Diego Padres to pursue a nationwide audience, he had to use the name The Famous Chicken. (WOR)
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FROM THE BASEBALL CHRONOLOGY
»July 16, 1980:
The California Supreme Court rules that Ted Giannoulas, better known as the man inside the San Diego Chicken suit, can appear publicly in chicken suits similar to the one that brought him fame, but not bearing the call letters of San Diego's KGB radio station. The station had fired Giannoulas when he began appearing publicly in the suit without permission, and claimed it had all rights to the costume, which was first used as a promotional device in 1975.
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