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The rumble

The Invasion of the Bobbleheads continutes Tuesday night at Citi Field when the Keith Hernandez-Ron Darling-Gary Cohen SNY version will be distributed on the Pepsi Porch. It is the perfect occasion to honor Cohen on his 25-year anniversary as Voice of the Mets.

“It’s always awesomely spectacular to share any platform with Keith and Ronnie,” Cohen told The Rumble. “The bobblehead is just our latest medium.”

Cohen said he is impressed with the facsimile.

“I think they made us all very presidential,” he said. “Ronnie looks like Reagan, Keith looks like Nixon, and I look like Eisenhower — Ike didn’t have a full head (of hair). They were kind enough to give me more hair than I have in real life.”

Each ticket comes with a limited edition bobblehead, choice of a hot dog, burger, or slice of pizza, and a soft drink. A portion of each ticket purchased through this offer will benefit the GKR Foundation, which donates to charities in health care and education, to name a few.

“Of course it’s an honor,” Cohen said. “It’s mind-boggling to me that anyone would want any piece of art with my likeness on it.

“Had I not gotten this job, I would probably have spent the last 25 years doing the exact same thing — probably bothering people in the section next to me … in the upper deck.”

Table tennis anyone?

Delta Air Lines hosted the “Delta Open” celebrity table tennis tournament Wednesday with Serena Williams, Henrik Lundqvist, Iman Shumpert, Brett Gardner and Mrs. Met at Madison Square Park. Williams took on each athlete in a round-robin style table tennis tournament.

Shumpert: “She just represents winning. And going hard at it. So I was just out there trying to distract her. I thought I performed at a high level too. I had the grunt going.”

Lundqvist: “I think next year we should have a challenge on the ice instead. We’ll see how that goes. When you are as talented as she is, you can do a lot of different sports, so I’m not going to say she can’t score on me. But it would be tough for her.”

Williams: “I love playing here in New York. I’m really looking forward to the U.S. Open. It’s been a year already. Time flies by. Just this time last year, I was winning and now I’m trying to defend my title. So I really look forward to it.”

Going back to

‘Mr. Steinbrenner’

Marty Appel’s Casey Award-nominated 2001 memoir “Now Pitching for the Yankees,” largely a backstage look at the Yankees’ public relations operation in the 1960s and ’70s, has been reissued by Diversion Books and is available this week as an ebook on Amazon for the first time.

Besides an update chapter, Appel changed all 125 references originally shown as “George” to “Mr. Steinbrenner.”

Said Appel: “I was wrong back then — I never called him George when I worked for him. I thought it was more reader-friendly at the time. But my respect for him has certainly grown over the years, and I’m glad to have this second chance to get that right.”