wearing a cotton Yankee uniform.

A few years ago the San Francisco Giants honored Duane Kuiper's only career home run with a bobblehead. Kuiper is the long-time Giants play-by-play television announcer. He was depicted wearing an Indians jersey. It was the first time the Giants honored a player from another team.

Has Cleveland ever honored Joe Tait or Tom Hamilton?

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TY Auggie for this! Is this your bobblehead?

I’m sure the Indians/Guardians or perhaps the Cavs have honored Joe Tait with a bobble. They may have put one out for Tom Hamilton, too, I just can’t keep track of them all.

Wanna see my bobblehead collection?

Thanks for sharing.

That's not my Kuiper bobblehead, though a friend of mine is disposing of his 100,000 baseball card collection and sent me several vintage Indians cards, including one for Kuiper from 1981.

BTW (and unrelated), I thought Sandy Alomar would have been a natural to replace Francona, but the team hired Vogt instead. Do you know of any story behind that?

I read that Sandy declined to be interviewed for the mgr. job. Apparently he likes being first base/infield/catching coach. How much truth is there I don’t know, but that’s what I read in the Plain Dealer.

Did you notice my Indians Pez dispenser?

As an aside …. I found something here you might enjoy.

https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2017/05/xx_memorable_radio_personaliti.html

It's the baseball, right?

Special thanks for the link. Lot of fun. I remember the sports folks and WMMS crew mostly. Loved Pete Franklin. He had a 1991-1997 gig on radio in San Francisco. I grew up with Franklin in Cleveland so it was a bonus to have him in the Bay Area at the tail end of his career, though I think a lot of the crowd here couldn't appreciate his style and format the way Ohio did.

Thanks Diamond_Dog. Getting ready to "play ball."

Yep you either loved him or hated him.

Opening Day is right around the corner ….

Maybe one of these days!