Stocking Stuffer: Curated Team Packs for the Kiddos (Red Sox Edition)

Yesterday I displayed – Show 'n Tell style – a stack of Yankees cards I stuffed in my son Luke's stocking this Christmas. Today, let's do the same thing with Nate, my younger boy, who like his mom aligns with the Red Sox.

Nate's a Mookie Betts fan, so let's start there...

Don't trade him Dombrowski.

More of Boston's young stars: Benintendi, Bogaerts and Devers.

Speaking as a Yankees fan, I hope Pedroia can get healthy enough for a proper send off. He's annoying as hell, and that hairline is ghastly, but he's earned the right to leave this game the on the field.

Nomar and Pedro - Mom's favorite players.

Ortiz and Manny - dudes gave me a lot of headaches.

Boggs, Clemens and Fisk. Seriously, how great is that Upper Deck Masterpiece card? I adore this set.

Teddy Ballgame and Yaz.

Mo Vaughn was the man. 'Tek and Youk.

Hodge podge.

On to "The Hits"...

As a 5-year-old, Nate gets a bigger kick out of relics than autographs. So a trio of jersey relics brought a smile to his face.

So that's that.


Tomorrow, I'll share a few things that I received this Christmas.

Stocking Stuffer: Curated Team Packs for the Kiddos (Yankees Edition)

For the third consecutive year, I put together little team packs to include in my sons’ Christmas stockings. They had a few fresh packs to tear open too, but I wanted to feed their Yankees and Red Sox binders.

I thought I’d share what I put together for them, starting with the Yankees fan – my eldest, Luke.

First, a hodge podge of current Yankees (pic above) – heavy on Aaron Judge, who now that Didi Gregorious has signed with the Phillies – is my man’s runaway favorite player.

Sabathia started his first live MLB game. We’ll miss CC. Luke was impressed he got a pinstripe on the relic card.

 My Yankees. A smattering of the guys I grew up with.

With the Captain.

A couple pretty good lefties.

Reggie and Thurman (I love that Upper Deck Masterpiece set, by the way).

The M&M Boys.

More legends (more UD Masterpiece).

The Babe.

And anticipating the next player collection in his binder, a Gerrit Cole jump start.

But what about the hits?

That's all. This was overshadowed a bit by his new Nintendo Switch, but we got these into his binder today. He was quite pleased. 

Hope everyone had a great holiday.