WISH LIST ITEMS 6-10

 

 

I will continue to list out the Bobbleheads that I am looking to acquire.  As noted, I am hoping to get them by trade, although I am thinking about creating a target price for each one that I would pay.  Not "big profit" type prices or total steals but favorable ones based on what I have seen them go for.  After all, I am not made of money.  That said the list continues:

 

6.  Lefty O'Doul SGA (San Francisco Giants)

 

This one appears to be another one that is expensive and hard to find.  That said, it has multiple cool factors beyond the information that there were only 3000 of them given out. First, I love anything to do with the old (pre 1958) PCL.  Second, the Shamrock base is unique.  Third, O'Doul is known not only as a ballplayer but as a tavern keeper.  Love the San Francisco Seals uniform.

 

Photo is from the Online Pacific Coast League Museum website.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7.  Harold Baines SGA 2013 (Chicago White Sox)

I love this one.  It is new but the prices are already starting to flatten out.  Key attributes:  Player who was cool, hasn't been done before, and is wearing the awful 1980s Sox uniform.  Best of all you have absolute certainty who the player is.  I would recognize this statue with no name and probably before it was painted. Very cool.

 

 

8.  Tim Raines SGA (Montreal Expos)

 

A guy who deserves to be in the Hall of Fame sporting the sweet powder blue Expos road uniform.  As a dead franchise, I have become somewhat fascinated with the Expos (OK, somewhat and fascinated are probably not consistent).  A

 

 

9.  A's Mascot Stomper (Athletics Kids' Club 2003)

 

There are a few different Stomper bobbles out there, but I like this one the best.  It does have a bobbling belly rather than head, but not a big deal.  I like the mascots as long as they are actually connected to the team, and the elephant has been a symbol of the Athletics for at least 80 years.

 

 

 

10.  Bill Freehan & Norm Cash (Great Lakes Loons 2010 SGA)

 

I am generally not a big collector of minor league issues. However, there are some (i.e. Pawtucket Red Sox Carlton Fisk) that both use the MLB uniform and look a lot like the subjects.  In this case, the Loons' Freehan is cooler IMHO than the issue from Detroit. I am not aware of a MLB Tigers Norm Cash bobblehead. Side note...I went to college with Freehan's daughter.  I never met her, although we had mutual friends who thought very highly of her.

 

Next edition of this list sometime soon...