Does anyone know about this rabbit?

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Posted By: Clint

I found this cool photo on ebay. I was wondereing if anyone knew about this rabbit or if it's been found?

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

I had never seen or heard of this rabbit before you pointed it out Clint, but a little Googling reveals that the rabbit was named "harvey" and was the idea of Charlie Finley in 1960 when He bought the A's. The little rabbit would pop up out of the ground when the umpire needed more baseballs.

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Posted By: Clint

I wonder If I can get one for the house that has beer instead of baseballs?

Clint

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Posted By: Jodi Birkholm

The idea for the rabbit was modelled after pint-sized Washington Senator Ernie Oravetz, who effectively did the same job in the minor leagues!

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

Did Ernie pop up out of the ground too?

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Posted By: Jodi Birkholm

According to "The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading and Bubblegum Book", yes, he did! Who knows, they could have been joking. What a hilarious book. I reread that book so many times growing up that I wore out three copies.

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Posted By: Clint

I just googled the rabbitt and found a site where I got an email for Nancy Finley. Her dad was Carl Finley ex Vp of the A's. I'll let you know if I hear back or not.

I can't believe I don't remember that. They used it up to 1980. We never got the west coast games here dang it. Look at all the cool stuff I missed.

Clint

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

I can't believe I've never heard of that rabbit and they were using it up to 1980. There wasn't much baseball on TV back then though as all I can remember was WTBS showing Braves games and the occasional Monday Night baseball telecast.

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Posted By: Clint

I just heard back from Nancy Finley. She said that the family still has Harvey. It's good that he's still around.

Clint

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Posted By: Tim

I wonder if he was named after the invisible rabbit Jimmy Stewart saw in the movie "Harvey."