To Paraphrase Mark Twain, I Don’t Care About The Bobble As Long As They Got The Hair Right
Kids, get to KeySpan Park early for your very own limited edition . . . Marty Markowitz bobblehead:
Posted: June 25th, 2007 | Filed under: Brooklyn, You're Kidding, Right?“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 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 [Aug. 5].
“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.”
He admitted to worrying that this might boost “a caricature of me as a comedic character” but called the promotion “all in good fun.”
“I am what I am, a legend at 62,” he said. “Being a bobblehead has its distinguishing characteristics.”
Cyclone general manager Steve Cohen called Markowitz a “true champion for the borough [and] one of the Cyclones’ most loyal supporters.”