“A bobble-head doll of Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac created as a promotion by the minor-league Lowell Spinners joined the collection at the Baseball Hall of Fame Wednesday,” reports an Associated Press wire story. The team handed out 1,000 of the dolls as a promotion at a game in August, 2003, then sold another 500 to raise $10,000 for the Jack Kerouac Scholarships fund. The A.P. story notes that as far as the Hall of Fame collection, “Kerouac is believed to be the first literary figure so honored.”