Marlins seeking public’s help with bobblehead
The Marlins want your help choosing which player’s likeness should grace a bobblehead doll to represent the franchise’s 15 years.
The team is choosing one player to represent each year of the team’s existence – Brian Harvey for 1993; Gary Sheffield for 1994; Mr. Marlin Jeff Conine for 1995 and so on. The team is announcing a new player each day through Sunday and then will ask fans to vote beginning Opening Day, March 31. Voting takes takes place at the team’s Web site until June 1, the winning player will be announced June 6. The bobblehead of the winning player will be given out at the team’s Sept. 19 game against the Philadelphia Phillies during Fan Appreciation Weekend.
Who will you choose? Is it possible, it won’t be Jeff Conine? Could it be Dontrelle Willis or Miguel Cabrera, who were traded away this offseason, but were a huge part of making the Marlins matter again in 2003, when the team won its second World Series?
And speaking of Willis and Cabrera, have any Marlins fans received an email from team sales representatives mentioning the two players as the team tries to get you to buy season tickets this year?
CRAIG DAVIS In more than 33 years at the Sun Sentinel, Craig Davis has written about a wide variety of sports topics from baseball to yachting, fishing to triathlons, and also worked as a copy editor and page designer. Recently he reported on local sports, including running, swimming, cycling, equestrian and beach volleyball. He enjoys sports as a participant as well as a spectator, is active in the South Florida running scene plays in the curling club at Saveology Iceplex. This blog offers a glimpse at the business side of sports in the interest of enhancing enjoyment of the games and sporting options as a spectator as well as a participant.
