It's got to be a strange feeling seeing yourself immortalized as a bobblehead doll! I can't say that I've ever really figured our facination with the bobblehead, but it certain seems to have become a bona fide baseball tradition.

Major League Baseball started producing bobblehead dolls in 1960. These were papier-mache dolls, one for each team, all with the same face. The World Series held that year brought the first player-specific baseball bobbleheads, for Roberto Clemente, Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, and Willie Mays–still all with the same (white) face!

Tonight at Dodger Stadium, it's Russell Martin Bobblehead Night (voted as the #3 Bobblehead Night by Dodger fans). eBay's already flooded with them. I don't know, do you think it looks like him? I think it's a bit of a stretch.

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