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Beverages Lucky Stuff
Sodas Juices
FREE REFILLS!
Coke Cranberry
Diet Coke Grapefruit
Sprite Pineapple
Root Beer Orange Check out our varied selection of
Tomato
Orange ____________________ Lucky Dog shirts, hats and logo glasses
Ginger Ale
_________________ Frozen in the case by the door or ask your server.
Root Beer Floats
_________________ Fruit Smoothies
Other 100% Fruit juice purée and
Beverages topped with whipped cream. Gift Cards
ice cream blended and
Pink Lemonade Choose any flavor
or combination mix.
Seasonal (Some flavors are seasonal!)
Unsweetened Ice Tea Strawberry
Ice Chai Tea Piña Colada
Ice Coffee Oregon® Chai Tea
We serve only fresh brewed coffee! Please feel free to
smoke on our outdoor deck.
The “Lucky Dog” Story
The name “Lucky Dog” originates from the famous thread expertise, D & M
Draper & Maynard Sporting Goods Company slogan, established itself as
“The Lucky Dog Kind.” The slogan was first heard at a major supplier of
Fenway Park when Babe Ruth spoke to a rookie with baseball equipment for
a new baseball glove. Noting the D & M trademark both professional and
depicting Maynard’s bird dog, Nick. The Babe exclaimed, amateur players.
“Oh, you’ve got one of the lucky dog kind.” To the good
fortune of Plymouth’s D & M Company, Ruth’s words D & M also became well known for its
were overheard by one of their salesmen and shortly other lines of sporting goods from boxing gloves
thereafter, D & M had the slogan copyrighted. to golf clubs.
In 1881, business partners Jason F. Draper (1850–1913) By the 1920s, over ninety percent of all major league
and John F. Maynard (1846–1937) founded the Draper baseball players used D & M gloves, and D & M employed
& Maynard Company in Ashland, New Hampshire to over 1,100 people in the Plymouth area. They had
manufacture buckskin gloves. One year later, the established branch offices in New York, San Francisco
firm pioneered production of a padded model at the and Quebec, and they shipped orders worldwide.
suggestion of baseball player Arthur Irwin.
Babe Ruth himself would come to Plymouth to have
In 1900, D & M accepted a ten-year tax waiver to his baseball gloves custom made. One of his more
relocate their headquarters from Ashland memorable visits came in 1916 when D & M workers
to Plymouth. Using their gathered around him as he tried to stitch a baseball.
needle and After struggling with it, Ruth finally looked up and
said, “I can hit ’em better than I can make ’em.”
D & M closed in 1937 after the death of Maynard,
who had outlived his partner by twenty-four
years. The D & M factory building—located at the
north end of Main Street on the roundabout—
was renovated in the 1990s and now houses the
Plymouth State University Art Department. Plymouth
State University’s D & M Collection features items
manufactured in the Plymouth factory as well as
items from D & M Ltd, the oldest sporting goods
factory in Japan.
The spirit of Nick, the “Lucky Dog” lives on here at the
Lucky Dog Tavern and Grill.