{"id":36323,"date":"2013-06-24T22:47:04","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T02:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=36323"},"modified":"2020-07-06T22:47:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T02:47:17","slug":"the-frankenchipper-bobblehead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=36323","title":{"rendered":"The FrankenChipper Bobblehead"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As I\u2019ve already admit to, I traveled all the way to Hickory, North Carolina, so I could get a Chipper Jones bobblehead. Nevermind the fact that logically, there was absolutely no reason for a Texas Rangers affiliate, or a team that Chipper Jones hasn\u2019t ever played for to be giving away a Chipper Jones bobblehead, when they announced that they were giving away a Chipper Jones bobblehead, I knew that I had to have it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thanks to myself for having way too much free time on my hands, and thank to my brother who graciously went to Hickory with me, I got the bobblehead, and it makes me happy.<\/span><\/p>\n

But here\u2019s the funny thing about the bobblehead; when I saw a picture of it on the Hickory team\u2019s website, I thought to myself that it looked kind of familiar. That didn\u2019t\/wasn\u2019t going to stop me from making the play for it, but I couldn\u2019t help but feel like this rare minor league ballpark giveaway was going to be as rare as people like me were thinking it was going to be.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Basically, the photo above are Chipper Jones bobblehead giveaways from 2011, 2012, and then Hickory\u2019s on the right end. When I saw the bobblehead on the Hickory website, my first thought was that it was 2012 Chipper\u2019s head on 2011 Chipper\u2019s body. Which kind of means that it\u2019s like this odd FrankenChipper bobblehead made from the parts of two different Chipper Jones bobbleheads from the past.<\/span><\/p>\n

This wasn\u2019t an outlandish hypothesis, because it\u2019s obvious that the companies that make baseball bobbleheads have pretty standard templates for bobbleheads, and it\u2019s not that often in which players get pretty unique or trademark poses. For example, I have at least two other bobbleheads that are essentially the same body of the 2011 Chipper. 2012 would be a good example of a truly unique bobblehead, considering the fact that he was in his swan song season, and it\u2019s only fitting to show him in what\u2019s pretty much his trademark home run trot.<\/span><\/p>\n

But based on the image from Hickory\u2019s site, I thought that I recognized the look of the face as 2012 Chipper\u2019s head, and the body from 2011 Chipper. When I got home, and I put them all side-by-side-by-side, here\u2019s what becomes obvious.<\/span><\/p>\n

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They\u2019re all the same head. With the exception of the color of the helmet, the shape of the head and the expression on the face are undoubtedly identical in all three Chippers. The conclusion of this is that there is essentially one mold for Chipper Jones heads, and it\u2019s used in all three of these applications.<\/span><\/p>\n

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So to some degree, my statement of 2012 head on 2011 body is essentially true. But it\u2019s also safe to say that Hickory\u2019s Chipper Jones is also essentially a re-release of 2011 Chipper, but with the body smaller, and their own individual nameplate on it. But due to the fact of helmet colors, my theory is more<\/em> true.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, the point remains is that I put forth a pretty high amount of time, money and effort to get to Hickory so I could get this bobblehead, and I\u2019m happy to have gotten it, since for all intents and purposes it is a collectable item, but visually it\u2019s pretty much nothing new or unique at all. It\u2019s basically 2011 Chipper, but with a smaller body and a different colored bat; the size of the head is same.<\/span><\/p>\n

The funny thing is that if all goes according to plan, I\u2019ll be making a play for another Chipper Jones bobblehead, next week, in Jacksonville, Florida. So the question is going to be if that<\/em> is going to be equipped with the same head on it, and with a generic-posed body or not.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I\u2019ve already admit to, I traveled all the way to Hickory, North Carolina, so I could get a Chipper Jones bobblehead. Nevermind the fact that logically, there was absolutely no reason for a Texas Rangers affiliate, or a team that Chipper Jones hasn\u2019t ever played for to be giving away a Chipper Jones bobblehead, … Continue reading The FrankenChipper Bobblehead<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[62,142,66,45,83,15,49],"class_list":["post-36323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-baseball","tag-bobbleheads","tag-braves","tag-fail","tag-observations","tag-og","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36327,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36323\/revisions\/36327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}