Red Sox Cancel David Ortiz Bobblehead Night
BOSTON (News 4 & Fox 11)
The Boston Red Sox abruptly cancelled a planned David Ortiz bobblehead giveaway Tuesday over what the team called an "unacceptable" design that was "not appropriate for distribution."
Fans with tickets to the game would receive new bobbleheads of Big Papi at a later date, the team said in a statement released Tuesday morning.
Ortiz, 40, is in his 20th and final season as a big league player. He had 25 homers and a .309 batting average entering Tuesday for Boston.
The bobblehead showed Ortiz holding a microphone and raising a fist, echoing his speech to Fenway Park in the first game played after the Boston Marathon bombings.
The lips of the bobblehead are bright pink, however, and several people have noted the similarities to blackface caricatures.
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