Kerouac bobble-head doll earns spot at baseball’s Hall of Fame LOWELL, Mass. (AP) — Ruth, Cobb, Mays, DiMaggio, Kerouac?
A bobble-head doll of Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac created as a promotion by the minor-league Lowell Spinners joined the collection at the Baseball Hall of Fame Wednesday.
Kerouac is believed to be the first literary figure so honoured.
“The Hall of Fame’s collections are rich and diverse, given baseball’s history and role in helping to shape and define American culture,” Hall spokesman Jeff Idelson said. “Having the Jack Kerouac bobble-head in our collection is important, given he’s an American icon who had a deep passion for the game, which he shared in his writing.”
Fans began lining up more than 7 1/2 hours before the Spinners’ game on Aug. 21, 2003, when the bobble-head honouring the Lowell native was handed out to the first 1,000 fans. The demand forced the team to create another 500 bobble-heads, which helped raise more than $10,000 for Jack Kerouac Scholarships.
The mould has since been destroyed for fear of more being created without permission.
“In minor league baseball, the promotions play just as big of a role as the game itself,” said Lowell General Manager Tim Bawmann. “So to have one of your promotions be accepted into the Baseball Hall of Fame is a pinnacle achievement for us.”
― Huk-L, Thursday, 5 May 2005 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)
Ineffective use of the "triple," expanded for a "pentuple" in the first line = C-
― Jimmy Mod Knows You Eat Your Own Farts (ModJ), Thursday, 5 May 2005 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)
but he played football, no?
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 5 May 2005 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)
There are many things wrong with this locally produced fluff piece.
― Jimmy Mod Knows You Eat Your Own Farts (ModJ), Thursday, 5 May 2005 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)
"bobble-headed hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly
connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night..."
― brianiac (briania), Thursday, 5 May 2005 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)
http://www.onlyagame.org/content/2003/08/29/0830bobble200.jpgJack Kerouac Bobblehead Doll Night
Date: 8/30/2003
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It was a little ironic that a lot of the people at LeLacheur Park on Jack Kerouac Bobblehead Doll Night had no idea who Jack Kerouac was or what he'd written, but only a little. A case can be made that Kerouac wrote almost all of his best work before anybody knew him.
On the Road, Kerouac's most famous (and notorious) novel wasn't published until 1957, seven years after Kerouac completed it. By that time, as a short biography on the website LitKicks puts it, "he was older and sadder than everyone expected him to be."
Jack Kerouac's reputation is that he wrote with a wide open
mind and a wide open throttle, and certainly this seems true of "On the Road." He also had a sense of humor. When one critic dismissed the book as "typing" rather than writing, Kerouac nodded and agreed.
― Huk-L, Thursday, 5 May 2005 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)
JK invented a baseball playing-card game while working as a fire look-out in California, I think.
― 57 7th (calstars), Thursday, 5 May 2005 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)
Face it, hippies, Kerouac was a jock and he woulda beat you up.
― Huk-L, Thursday, 5 May 2005 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)
Note: Kerouac isn't in the HoF, his bobble-head is.
― Huk-L, Friday, 6 May 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)
And "in the HoF" means just that, in the building.
― Huk-L, Friday, 6 May 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)