Topps Holiday Christmas Ornament Thingy

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you're having a happy holiday celebration with your families and not driving two hours to your in-laws like I'm doing. Can I still call them in-laws? I'm not married anymore ?:/ 

This is the first year that I'm in charge of Christmas, and I definitely spent a lot on my girls. Next year we'll be a bit more frugal. I also spent a little bit on myself, with some high-end singles that I'll show off soon. 

And there's at least one unwrapped sports card gift for me...

I spied a Topps Holiday ornament while shopping for my daughters and thought it would be a nice capper to the Advent calendar. Little did I know how badly I'd need a proper finale. Yeesh. 

Inside this decorative ball (which was far too heavy to stay on my tree) is a tray holding 52 cards:

I'll add the base singles together with my calendar haul and recap everything this weekend. Meanwhile, here are the ornament exclusive parallels: 

The blue ones look better IMO. Nice to get a Bregman even though he's definitely not coming back to Boston (not that we need him) I might ship the Machado out to Fuji once I open the rest of my Christmas cards. 

There were no Nice List inserts (good, I'm tired of them) nor any other insert, but there was a card flipped over in the pack:

Hmm, I wonder why this was .... oooohhh

Holiday image variation of last year's big rookie free agent!!! This has got to be a $15-20 card, no?

No. Not at all. It's basically a common. Shouldn't the base Sasaki RC sell for $2+??

I am woefully out of touch with card values. Which is fine; I only need to know them when buying graded vintage anyhow. The Advent calendar and the Ornament were fun to open and that's what matters.

Did you open any sports card packs or boxes this Christmas? Did you receive them as gifts, or did you buy them yourself (like I did)? 

Thanks for reading!


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