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Paul Skenes Bobblehead Popularity Leads Pirates to Make Cool Announcement

Tim Capurso

Skenes reacts on the mound.
Skenes reacts on the mound. / Charles LeClaire-Imagn Images
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Saturday is Paul Skenes Bobblehead day at PNC Park and Pittsburgh Pirates fans weren't leaving anything to chance. In the Pirates' initial announcement of the promotion, the club stated that only the first 20,000 fans in attendance would receive the baseball card-style bobblehead.

So, fans came out in droves, creating a line of such immense size that it stretched across the Roberto Clemente Bridge and around the corner into downtown Pittsburgh, as captured in a video courtesy of Andrew Fillipponi on X.

Here's another look at the sheer number of Pirates fans who showed up to the ballpark in the hopes of securing the bobblehead.

The Pirates, undoubtedly seeing just how popular the bobblehead was, in an admirable adjustment announced that any fan who scanned into Saturday's game after the first 20,000 bobbleheads were handed out would still receive one via an electronic voucher.

Now that's how you make a fan base happy.

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Tim Capurso
TIM CAPURSO

Tim Capurso is a staff writer on the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. Prior to joining SI in November 2023, he wrote for RotoBaller and ClutchPoints, where he was the lead editor for MLB, college football and NFL coverage. A lifelong Yankees and Giants fan, Capurso grew up just outside New York City and now lives near Philadelphia. When he's not writing, he enjoys reading, exercising and spending time with his family, including his three-legged cat Willow, who, unfortunately, is an Eagles fan.

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