The Rat! Gary Gaetti Sugar Land Skeeters

Finally was able to add this one to my collection.  I had been searching for it for quite some time. And luckily for me, I was able to get one for a buddy of mine too!  All thanks to Facebook!  Gaetti is the manager for the Sugar Land Skeeters in Texas.  It's in between a "mini" and a regular bobblehead, but has nice detail.  It was an SGA in 2013 and I think limited to 1000.

Want List (Part 9)

Here are a few more Twins related bobbleheads that I'd eventually like to find.  First are a couple major leaguers, or umm, semi-major leaguers...you'll see what I mean by that in, 3...2...1

Yep, that's Aaron Hicks when he played for the Beloit Snappers and Trevor Plouffe when he was on the Rochester Red Wings roster.  I've seen these before, they aren't all that rare, I'm not willing to pay some sort of ridiculous amount for them tho!  Next we have a couple former Twins.  Gary Gaetti, the current manager of the Sugar Land Skeeters.  And a New Britain Rock Cats bobblehead of David Ortiz.  

2014 Spring/Summer Finds #3

Earlier this summer one of the first good finds I had was at a garage sale in Farmington.  They had several bobbleheads, mainly Twins, but a few othe random ones as well.  There are a couple reasons that this sits at #3 on my top 5 Spring/Summer Finds list.  The first, I was able to add a couple bobbleheads to my collection.  One (or should I say 2) is a bit more rare than the others.  This one was extremely cheap, actually a bit cheaper than great garage sale prices!  So I lucked out on it!  This is a retail AGP Minnie and Paul bobblehead set.  They are shaking hands (held together by magnets).

I bought several and there was a Twins nesting doll set that was intriguing.  Because I love to wheel and deal, before I accepted the sellers price for all of the ones I was buying I asked him to throw in the nesting doll set.  He had no problem doing it.  I had 2 thoughts - it was cool and possibly rare/unique.  The cool factor meant that at the very least I'd keep it for my own collection.  I hadn't ever seen one like it before but I don't really search for things other than bobbleheads.  I did a little google research and that turned up zero, which was either good news or terrible news.  I went to a local sports collectibles store and talked to the owner.  He said he had seen them before but not for quite a while and offered me $50 cash for it.  At that point I knew I had something that was somewhat unique and valuable.  Add to it that it contained the biggest of big Twins names (Kirby Puckett, Harmon Killebrew, Rod Carew, Kent Hrbek & Gary Gaetti) I knew I'd eventually sell it on eBay.  

Minnesota Twins ST Bobblehead Set (Part 8 - Year 2008)

Here we have the 2008 ST bobblehead set.  Anytime baby jesus is in bobblehead form, it'll be a popular set.  Add in Morneau and you've got a pretty decent set all around.  The set isn't very valuable (mainly because you can find these 4 bobbleheads pretty easily) but its a nice set nonetheless.  Joe Mauer, Justin Morneau, Michael Cuddyer and Gary Gaetti make up the foursome.  

Here's the comparison with the 2007 SGA set.  As you can see - no difference whatsoever between the 2 sets.  We are accustomed to that by now, aren't we!?!  

Minnesota Twins SGA Bobblehead Set (Part 8 - Year 2007)

2007 brought 4 pretty decent bobbleheads.  Joe Mauer, Justin Morneau, Michael Cuddyer and Gary Gaetti.  Of course the Mauer is the most desirable of the bunch.  Nothing really special about any of these 4, but whenever you have a baby jesus bobblehead, it'll be popular!