Larkin is Coming Home…Sort Of

One of Cincinnati’s favorite sons is coming back to the Queen City in the form of a bobblehead. Starting this weekend, the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame and Museum will be giving away bobbleheads of former Cincinnati Reds shortstop and 2012 Major League Baseball Hall of Fame inductee, Barry Larkin.

The bobbleheads will be free with the purchase of a full price admission to the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame and Museum on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays throughout the month of August starting on Friday, August 1. Tickets cost $10 for adults, $8 for students and senior citizens, and $6 for all active and former members of the military. There is a strict one bobblehead per visitor per day rule.

Considering how the Reds gave out Barry Larkin bobbleheads in 2001 and in 2006, I would expect demand for this nodder to be less than that of the Eric Davis nodder that was given out in July. However, Larkin is one of the more popular Reds from the 1990 World Series Championship team, and if you want this bobblehead, I suggest you get to the Hall of Fame and Museum as soon as possible as only 6000 bobbleheads were produced, and the supply might deplete rather quickly.

I have the Barry Larkin bobblehead that the Reds gave out during the 2006 season, so I will not be heading to the Hall of Fame and Museum to get the 2014 edition. Pictures of the 2014 version are online, and it does look like a cool bobblehead, so if you do not yet have a Larkin nodder in your collection, you might want to consider heading to the Hall of Fame and Museum to get one for yourself.