Bobblehistory, plus Bonus Palin-Related Laffs
The real beauty of Wikipedia, I believe, is in the stuff it occurs to you out of nowhere to look up and for which there's not much at stake if something is a little inaccurate. Don't ask me why I looked up bobbleheads today, but there's a rich and storied history here:
Under "External Links," a single item:
I may have thought about bobbleheads because I acquired one at the Pirates game I saw in Pittsburgh three weekends ago. Pictured at right: Richie Zisk, who played on the '79 team that won the World Series when Nate and I were still in utero. Everything I know about Richie Zisk I learned from this bobblehead:
Bobbleheads can be kind of a curse: they feel too expensive to just throw away, but there's only so much you can do with them. I guess Nate's free table at work method of ditching his Willie Randolph bobblehead is probably the way to go. I doubt there are many Richie Zisk fans at the Press, though.
Those are all the facts I know about bobbleheads.
The earliest known reference to a bobblehead is thought to be in Nikolai Gogol's 1842 short story The Overcoat, in which the main character's neck was described as "like the necks of plaster cats which wag their heads". The modern bobblehead first appeared in the 1950s. By 1960, Major League Baseball had gotten in on the action and produced a series of papier-mache bobblehead dolls, one for each team, all with the same cherubic face. The World Series held that year brought the first player-specific baseball bobbleheads, for Roberto Clemente, Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, and Willie Mays, still all with the same face.Well, they all mostly looked alike anyway. From there, the history is a couple decades of neglect and an eventual resurgence in the age of plastics.
Under "External Links," a single item:
■ Jewish Currents magazine- Bobblehead doll of Yiddish author Sholem Aleichem.
I may have thought about bobbleheads because I acquired one at the Pirates game I saw in Pittsburgh three weekends ago. Pictured at right: Richie Zisk, who played on the '79 team that won the World Series when Nate and I were still in utero. Everything I know about Richie Zisk I learned from this bobblehead:Richie Zisk Fact #1. Richie Zisk had a '70s mustache.Those are all the facts I know about Richie Zisk.
Richie Zisk Fact #2. Richie Zisk was sponsored by SONY.
Bobbleheads can be kind of a curse: they feel too expensive to just throw away, but there's only so much you can do with them. I guess Nate's free table at work method of ditching his Willie Randolph bobblehead is probably the way to go. I doubt there are many Richie Zisk fans at the Press, though.
Those are all the facts I know about bobbleheads.
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