Free Tickets Offered After Bobble in Rivera Doll Giveaway Bobblehead peace reigned at Yankee Stadium on Wednesday, one day after Mariano Rivera dolls did not quite show up on time, creating long lines when they finally did arrive and plenty of grumbling fans. On Wednesday, the free gifts were Charlie Brown bobblehead dolls, and they were stacked in crates at the entrances to the stadium hours before the gates opened and were distributed without incident, just the way they were supposed to be. However, a Charlie Brown doll - as a lovable comic strip loser, Charlie Brown does not quite fit with the Yankees" legacy - is not nearly as cherished an item for Yankee fans as a Rivera doll is. The Yankees, mindful that people were unhappy with how the Rivera dolls were distributed, announced before Wednesday's game that they would offer a free ticket to a 2014 regular-season game, excluding opening day and Old-Timers" Day, to anyone who held a ticket to Tuesday night's game. The Yankees lost, 7-0, making all those irritated fans even unhappier. The Yankees had planned to hand out free bobblehead dolls with Rivera's likeness to the first 18,000 fans at Tuesday's game, but the dolls did not arrive until almost 15 minutes before the first pitch because of transportation problems, the Yankees said. So the Yankees improvised by keeping the gates closed for an additional 30 minutes while they printed up 18,000 vouchers. But the distribution of the dolls in exchange for the vouchers did not go smoothly. "Although a perfect storm of circumstances beyond our control led to the delay in the distribution of last night's promotional item, the fact remains that our fans were inconvenienced," Lonn Trost, the Yankees" chief operating officer, said. It matters little why - only that they were. We take last night's event seriously and apologize to our fans. Rivera was in the Yankees" clubhouse Tuesday night when he saw on the television broadcast of the game that long lines were forming for the dolls. "I was listening to it, and I could hear the fans were upset," he said. Rivera noted that he had nothing to do with the bobblehead giveaway, but added with his wry smile that if he had, the distribution of the dolls would have gone without a glitch. "If I was, it would have been done," he said. The Yankees said that anyone who had a ticket to Tuesday's game but lost it should e-mail tickets@yankees.com, and that season-ticket holders should contact their ticket representative for assistance.