Hochman: Former Phillie Dave Cash: Yes, Obama can use my slogan

While a certain Braves manager is STILL trying to collect off of Warren G. Harding’s “Cox and Cocktails” slogan.

Dave Cash coined the phrase “Yes We Can” in spring training 1974, and the Phillies splattered it on bumper stickers, posters and the Jumbotron at Veterans Stadium.
Coined the phrase? Coined the phrase?

“I didn’t make a dime out of it,” Cash said the other day. “I wasn’t looking for monetary gain. I was looking to motivate the team for the challenges it faced, the [Bob] Gibsons and the [Tom] Seavers.

“The Phillies even put it on the back of the shirts the grounds crew wore. Once they put it up on the scoreboard, it really caught on.”

...“I never thought,” Cash said, “in my lifetime, I’d see a black man running for president. In 1966, when I signed to play pro baseball, I couldn’t stay in a hotel with a white person. Now, anybody who says ‘Yes We Can’ is all right with me.