It became common to hear the crowd chant "We want the Bird, we want the Bird" at the end of each of his home victories. The chants would continue until he emerged from the dugout to tip his cap to the crowd. While these "curtain calls" have become more common in modern sports, they were less so in mid-1970s baseball. In his 18 appearances at Tiger Stadium, attendance equaled almost half of the entire season's 81 home games. Teams started asking Detroit to change its pitching rotation so Fidrych could pitch in their ballparks, and he appeared on the cover of numerous magazines, including "Sports Illustrated" (twice, including once with "Sesame Street" character Big Bird), "Rolling Stone" (as of 2015, the only baseball player ever to appear on the cover of the rock and roll magazine), and "The Sporting News". In one week, Fidrych turned away five people who wanted to be his agent, saying, "Only I know my real value and can negotiate it."