Obama fever reaches minor-league baseball

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Getting elected president is nice, of course. But having a bobblehead doll of your likeness handed out at a ballpark? Now that's something!
  Granted, it's only a Class A minor-league park (though quite a nice one). But Barack Obama will no doubt be mightily pleased to hear that the Brooklyn Cyclones (of the storied New York-Penn League) will "inaugurate" their season this spring with an extravaganza that includes renaming themselves the Baracklyn Cyclones (for that one game), donning special red-white-and-blue jerseys, giving away Band-Aids as a gesture toward "universal health care" and handing out the aforementioned bobbleheads.

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