{"id":2448,"date":"2007-06-25T07:49:46","date_gmt":"2007-06-25T15:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/06\/to_paraphrase_mark_twain_i_dont_care_about_the_bobble_as_long_as_they_got_the_hair_right.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T12:34:16","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T17:34:16","slug":"to_paraphrase_m_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/06\/to_paraphrase_m_1.html","title":{"rendered":"To Paraphrase Mark Twain, I Don’t Care About The Bobble As Long As They Got The Hair Right"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kids, get to KeySpan Park early for your very own limited edition . . . Marty Markowitz bobblehead<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“This is the zenith of my professional career,” quipped Markowitz. “I’ve been called a lot of things. Now I’m a bobblehead.”<\/p>\n

The plastic doll — in a business suit but with a baseball bat — is part of the Met minor-league team’s Legends of Brooklyn series and will go to the first 2,500 fans at that Sunday afternoon’s game <\/em>[Aug. 5].<\/p>\n

“I’m better looking,” Markowitz said upon seeing the doll last week. “I’m certainly younger looking . . . They got the hair right. I don’t know if they made it chubby enough, though.”<\/p>\n

He admitted to worrying that this might boost “a caricature of me as a comedic character” but called the promotion “all in good fun.”<\/p>\n

“I am what I am, a legend at 62,” he said. “Being a bobblehead has its distinguishing characteristics.”<\/p>\n

Cyclone general manager Steve Cohen called Markowitz a “true champion for the borough [and] one of the Cyclones’ most loyal supporters.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kids, get to KeySpan Park early for your very own limited edition . . . Marty Markowitz bobblehead: “This is the zenith of my professional career,” quipped Markowitz. “I’ve been called a lot of things. Now I’m a bobblehead.” The plastic doll — in a business suit but with a baseball bat — is part […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-youre_kidding_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}