New Dodger Bobbleheads At BobblesGalore, Plus A Contest Announcement

With the baseball and bobblehead seasons about to start, I wanted to announce BobblesGalore's second year of sponsoring Dodgerbobble.com. We're going to hold bobblehead contests all year long, including one for the very first Dodger bobblehead of 2012, the Don Drysdale/Maury Wills dual bobblehead.  I'll have details on the contest next Monday.


Speaking of the Drysdale/Wills bobblehead, you can pre-order them now at BobblesGalore.com by clicking here. Dodgerbobble.com readers can save 10% on their order by using the promo code BobblesGalore10.


A couple of other new bobbleheads you can pick up now at BobblesGalore are the Forever Collectibles Matt Kemp and Clayton Kershaw bobbles, the same ones I recently posted. There were only 2012 produced of each and BobblesGalore is selling them for $21.95 or you can buy them as a pair by clicking here.


And finally, I would like to mention BobblesGalore also has blog. You can get all your bobblehead info and news there as well as site news. For the BobbleGalore Bobble Blog, click here.

Dodger Bobblehead News And Notes

Forever Collectibles has released two new Dodger bobbleheads, Matt Kemp and Clayton Kershaw. It's been a while since we've seen new Dodger bobbleheads from Forever. These bobbles are 8 inches tall and  have the normal sized heads. Both sell for $24.99 at Dodgers.com. I've never been a fan of the Forever bobbleheads but these are pretty damn nice. They both look a lot like Matt and Clayton.


The Dodgers have added a bobblehead to the promotional schedule. No, it's not another Dodger Stadium great. It's Hello Kitty. The Dodgers will be giving away Hello Kitty mini bobbleheads to the first 50,000 fans on Sunday, July 1. This is not the first time the team has had a Hello Kitty promotion. Last year they gave away Hello Kitty Plush dolls. I've added this bobblehead in the sidebar.


The Albuquerque Isotopes, AAA affiliate of the Dodgers, released their promotional schedule. They will be giving away three bobbles in 2012. Former player and coach Jason Wood gets the first bobblehead on May 28. The second will be a Green Chile Pepper bobblehead on August 19. The last one is an Isotopes bobble logo on September 3.

And finally, I just wanted share this great picture of Dodger legend Maury Wills posing with his upcoming bobblehead. This dual bobblehead of Maury and Don Drysdale will be given away on April 28 and is the first of ten Dodger Stadium Greats bobbleheads. You can see the list of all the others in my sidebar to the right.

Five AL Teams Release Bobblehead Schedules

Let's take a look at five more teams that have released  promotional schedules with bobbleheads. You can see my first three posts here, here and here. 

The Tampa Bay Rays are going bobblehead crazy, giving away seven in 2012. This is the most by any team except for  the Dodgers 11 bobblesheads. The first of seven is Kyle Farnsworth(May 20) followed by Desmond Jennings(June 3), Joe Maddon(June 15), James Shields(July 1), Matt Moore(July 22), DJ Kitty(August 5) and the last one is TBD(September 23).


The Baltimore Orioles traditionally have been one of the better bobblehead teams in the majors, but this year they only have one. That bobblehead is a fans choice bobble on September 29.

The Seattle Mariners have  four scheduled bobbleheads this year. No Larry Bernandez this time, but they do have Ichiro(April 20), Dustin Ackley(May 25), Felix Hernandez(June 15) and Randy Johnson/Dan Wilson 2012 Mariners Hall of Fame dual bobble.


The Kansas City Royals have many promotions scheduled in 2012, but only two bobbleheads. Buck O'Neil(July 21) gets the first of two, Eric Hosmer(August 18) the second. KC is hosting the All-Star game this season and they could've put out some nice All-Star-themed bobbles, maybe a George Brett or a Brett Saberhagen. I think they missed a good opportunity here.

The Texas Rangers just signed Yu Darvish, but the super-hyped import won't get a bobblehead this year. Instead they are honoring three others  with Nodders: Adrian Beltre(April 28), Ian Kinsler(August 12) and Manager Ron Washington(August 25).

Around The Blogosphere: Win Two Dodger Home Opener Tickets, Return Of An Old Friend and the Introduction Of A New Blog

Dodger fans, wanna go to the Dodgers home opener? Angry Albert is holding a contest and the prize is two tickets to see the boys in blue take on the Pittsburgh Pirates on April 10. You can see all the contest rules here.

One of my favorite card blogs is I'm Ballsy! run by the great Arno. Arno took a break from blogging for a few months, but he's back now, along with his guinea pigs and he's busting boxes. You can check out his blog here.

Dave with Mitch Richmond

I want to introduce everyone to a new blog here in the blogosphere, David's Autograph Signings. David is one of the best graphers I know. I actually met him when he won my Duke Snider bobblehead contest last year, but we've seen each other many times at various autograph events throughout SoCal. Dave is blogging about all these events now, and you can you read it all here.

A New Koufax From Cardboard Heaven

I've never been a big fan of Manupatches, but I think the 2012 Topps Historical Stitches cards are pretty sweet. A couple weeks back, Cameron from Cardboard Heaven posted the Sandy Koufax and it caught my eye. I asked him if it was available and we were able to work out a trade. Cameron also sent over an assortment of Dodger cards I needed.

Thanks for the trade Cameron. I love the Koufax!

Dee Gordon Goes Green

I picked up a few more Dee Gordons this week. First up is this Topps Finest auto. There are a few variations of this card. This is the green version numbered 35/199. If anyone has other variations of this card, let me know, I'd love to make a trade.

I also picked up a few Dee base cards today at the LCS. I think I concentrate so hard on getting autographs, I forget the base cards. Dee's got a few now, so I'll take those too if anyone's got extras.

Kersh And Koufax

Kersh, Koufax and Honeycutt
 pic via @Dodgers

I'm so jealous of Rick Honeycutt, the man talking to Dodger legend Sandy Koufax and 2011 Cy Young Award winner Clayton Kershaw. Koufax paid a visit to the Dodgers training camp at Camelback Ranch today.