We are losing it over the Vladdy Jr. bobblehead
The year’s most adorable niche Toronto trinket just dropped
With the Blue Jays’ 50th season starting in just a few days, we’re in the process of putting baseball games on our calendars.
If you’re a collector of sentimental sports memorabilia, you’re going to want to circle May 25 and ensure you are among the first 15,000 fans to arrive at the Rogers Centre that day.
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That’s when the “Born Ready” Vladimir Guerrero Jr. bobblehead will be handed out. No mantel is complete without one. Move the portraits of your family members over a few inches if you have to.
Inspired by a famed photo of Vladdy Jr. as a kid, with his father, Vladimir Guerrero Sr., at a 2002 Montreal Expos game, the nostalgic collector’s item honours a sweet moment captured by photographer Paul Chiasson, years before they became the only father-son duo in Major League history to both hit grand slams in the post-season.
A rendering of the Vladdy Jr. bobblehead is already blowing up on Reddit, so if you want one, plan a cheeky half-day to get there early, or figure out a way to own the team, in which case we’re sure they’ll set one aside for you.
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Carly Lewis is a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times and the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Wired, Interview Magazine, Pitchfork, Elle, and Maclean’s, where she is a contributing editor. Her work has been recognized by the National Magazine Awards and the Digital Publishing Awards. She reports on city life, culture—including what people do online—politics, art and crime. She received the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award for “The Murder of Ashley Wadsworth,” an investigative feature about a Canadian teenager who was killed by a man she met on social media, published by Maclean’s.
