Bobblehead dynasty springs from a collector’s love

Bobblehead dynasty springs from a collector’s love
Mike Becker made the first of the dolls with jiggling heads in 1998, of the restaurant icon Big Boy. The craze didn’t catch on until a rival started paying tribute to baseball stars, but the company Becker started is still a big player. In 1998, T-shirt designer and toy collector Mike Becker wanted a coin bank of the restaurant icon Big Boy — the chubby, hamburger-hoisting character in red-and …
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