The Minnesota Twins consistently produce great TV commercials, and the one for Josh Willingham bobblehead doll day is one of their better efforts. Producers re-created Target Field in bobblehead form and packed it with real bobblehead doll fans in the stands, and showed them watching real bobblehead Twins and Tigers playing in the bottom of the ninth inning.

Of course it's all a tad whimsical — bobblehead dolls don't play for real, silly — but that this commercial presupposes is, what if they did? Here are the 10 best details from the commercial:

Kansas City Royals fan Brett Parker isn't the first person to get dressed up for a ballgame, but he's still kind of a genius for organizing "Dressed to the Nines" at Kauffman Stadium on Sunday. With the help of Negro League Baseball Museum president Bob Kendrick and Major League Baseball, it should have a real shot at becoming a recurring annual event — if not a habit to be repeated many times a season.

Parker and his friends not only love going to baseball games but they also support the NLBM in Kansas City, Mo. (That place, along with the Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, N.Y., and the Louisville Slugger Museum in Louisville, Ky., are about the coolest places of their kind in the United States. All are must-sees for fans.)

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As Kansas City Star columnist Sam Mellinger wrote recently, the Negro League Museum is replete with photos of fans in the stands at Negro League games dressed in their 'Sunday best' clothes. Back in the day, most fans of every color — no matter if they were attending major league or Negro League games — dressed up. Actually, it seems like folks dressed up no matter where they were if they were going out, in those days.

But looking your best meant something more to black fans at a Negro League game:

(Angels Baseball, Getty)

Fish hats, get your Mike Trout fish hats!

The Los Angeles Angels already sell, or did a season ago, a foam cap shaped like a fish in honor of star slugger Mike Trout. You can buy one on eBay for $24.99. They're solid, if not durable-looking. Good enough for Howie Kendrick to wear around the clubhouse.

This is better.

The cap the Angels are giving away when they play the Seattle Mariners on June 18 is different — it has an actual trout mockup leaping from the forehead, as if to steal somebody's home run at the fence.

What's double-nice is, it has the Ashton Kutcher/trucker mesh in the back that kids these days wear un-ironically, but shouldn't like because it's just as flimsy and garish as it was in 1984 when it was the best caps could do because it was only 1984.

But mesh is, admittedly, appropriate for a cap that has a fish leaping out the front. Trout's No. 27 appears on one temple, and an Angels logo appears on the other.

How you don't have tickets for this game already, nobody knows.

C.J. Wilson cooly and casually catching a bouncing foul ball from the front row of the Los Angeles Angels dugout takes the phrase "act like you've been there before" to nirvana. Notice, though, some of Wilson's teammates cowering as the ball — which admittedly was not hit all that hard — came toward the Angels dugout Sunday. They cover up like scaredy cats as Wilson fearlessly reaches, with his cap in his left (non-fielding) hand and his sunglasses in his right. So cool.

And so many little movements were necessary to pull it off so cooly:

An umpire ejected Bryce Harper of the Washington Nationals for the second time in his career Sunday afternoon after he argued a check-swing call for strike three in the first inning. At first glance, third-base umpire John Hirschbeck seemed to be the aggressor in the confrontation, but the available video of the incident doesn't tell us everything.

And regardless of who instigated what, Harper only vaguely addressed with the media what happened, and he did not take to Twitter later to express any dissatisfaction. This is what he said, via the Washington Post, after the Nats beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 6-2.

“I don’t have much to say on it,” Harper said. “I’m not going to badmouth anybody or say anything I shouldn’t say. I’m glad we got the W today.”

Harper's response was 180 degrees from that of David Price of the Rays who — no matter that he seemed within his rights — passive-aggressively ripped an umpire in public after a recent argument, and was fined as a result.

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Instead of all that, Harper took the high road — the highest possible, really. Good for him, being only 20 years old. One of Harper's major league friends, Adam Eaton of the Arizona Diamondbacks, did send encouragement on Twitter:

@bharper3407 that's ridiculous. Watching it on SC. I'm with you brotha. Hope all is well. — Adam Eaton (@AdamSpankyEaton) May 6, 2013

Was it all that ridiculous, though? Here's an account by reporter Adam Kilgore of WaPo, explaining happened immediately after Harper got rung up, along with quotes from Hirschbeck:

(Big League Stew)

These 3-inch vinyl figures by Topps might look more like Cartman from "South Park" than they do Joey Votto of the Cincinnati Reds or David Wright of the New York Mets, but they're still fun. Fun-ish, anyway. Stocked next to a cash register in order to attract impulse buyers (hmm) the Big League Minis ran me $6.99 apiece Sunday at an area Dick's Sporting Goods. One to a pack! Holy mark-up.

They're no bobbleheads, they don't wobble like Weebles, and they probably wouldn't make good bath toys — there's a hole in the bottom of them and they're not squeezable. But they might be good for a 3-year-old to chew on.

Topps, which usually does baseball cards of coure, made 28 figures — so not every team gets one:

(Getty)

It's been a rough few days in certain New York City sports arenas. It turns out that Mickey Mantle corked one of his bats. Also, the Brooklyn Nets failed to beat the Chicago Bulls, who played Game 7 of their NBA first-round playoff series Saturday night with only three players on the court, and one of them was coach Tom Thibodeau*.

(*Slight exaggeration.)

And worst of all: New York Yankees ace left-hander CC Sabathia attended the humiliating Nets game wearing a Dodgers cap. A Brooklyn Dodgers cap, yeah, and Jackie Robinson, yeah, and "42" is still playing in theaters, sure, but it's the Dodgers just the same. No matter that they abandoned Ebbets Field for sunny Los Angeles in 1958.

To answer the question on so many of your minds: Yes, this is news!

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A Yankee wearing a Dodgers cap in Brooklyn's court. Yankee traitor! Bronx treason! Borough scandal! And double-worst of all, Sabathia performed this act in front of his young son Carsten Charles III. You can see, from the photo above, Sabathia giving his son noogies for questioning his father's cap choice. (I can't disagree with Sabathia's all-denim outfit choice, though. Makes me feel better about the first date with my wife.)

Yankee Pinstripes, not Dodger Blue, the younger Sabathia pleads with his father. (And what is it about Sabathia and Caps? He's always dancing the sugar boogie with the Cap' n Crunch devil.)

This is the second such New York Baseball Cap Controversy since December. Before Christmas, New York Mets funnyman Jordany Valdespin took significant flak for posting an Instagram photo of himself wearing a Miami Marlins cap:

(AP, Grey Flannel Auctions)

Apparently, even the great Mickey Mantle cheated at baseball.

Grey Flannel Auctions is putting up for bid a used Mantle bat from the 1964 season that, X-rays show, was doctored with cork.

"Say it ain't so, Mickey," the New York Post writes.

But is this revelation all that shameful? Hollowing a bat's barrel and inserting cork has long been against the rules, though its actual effect on how the ball travels is dubious at best. You get conflicting answers when asking people who might know. Still, it's cheating. Or trying to cheat.

Here's what the item's capsule description says of the only such doctored bat ever to surface:

In his autobiography, then Minnesota Twins equipment manager Ray Crump admitted that he had corked some bats for Mickey. Until now, none of these bats have surfaced…taking nothing away from the icon and legend of Mickey Mantle, this is indeed a one of a kind piece of NY Yankees and baseball history…a Mantle corked gamer.

I have not read Crump's "Beneath the Grandstands" from 1993, or remember hearing accusations of Mantle ever corking a bat. Except for one place: A classic Seinfeld episode from earlier the same year. He might be more of a New York Mets fan, but some of the best work from the "Seinfeld" TV show refers to the New York Yankees. And, as it pertained to Mickey Mantle, one of the most popular Yanks ever, one of the most iconic Seinfeld lines ever sprang:

"They're real ... and they're spectacular."

It was said by actress Teri Hatcher, who was referring to her breasts, which Seinfeld wondered — to the eventual undoing of their budding relationship — might have implants. Jerry definitely had a prejudice against breast augmentation, and he used Mantle as a hypothetical analogy to express it: