MILWAUKEE (AP) — Leading off for the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum: Pete Rose.
The former Cincinnati Reds star will be the inaugural inductee to the new bobblehead hall on Saturday at a ceremony in a downtown Milwaukee theater.
Rose is baseball’s career hits leader and 17-time All-Star but remains under a lifetime ban imposed in 1989 for betting on the Reds while both playing for and managing the team.
Bobblehead museum co-founder and CEO Phil Sklar says voters in an online poll overwhelmingly approved of inducting Rose and that Rose thought it was a “lot of fun.”
The ceremony is expected to draw about 300 to 400 guests, Sklar said. Rose is also scheduled to have a question-and-answer session with the audience.