Christmas greetings.
My very first — and, so far, only — 2025 Topps Holiday card arrived in the mail a few days ago. I’ve said a few times that this year’s Holiday set doesn’t appeal to me because the design doesn’t do enough to forget that the set is basically a repeat of flagship — which was the issue with the first few years of Holiday.
However, the parallels are rather fun and this card is special. Not only is it my first Holiday card from this year but it is Jhonkensy Noel’s first appearance in Holiday — see the rookie logo — which means this is a First Noel card.
It’s too bad that Noel is currently without a team but he’s useful in my collection right now. Added together with the other Noels in my collection, I have four total, which allows me to do this:
🎶Noel
🎶Noel
🎶Noel
🎵Noel!
🎶Born
🎶is the
🎶King of
🎵Israel
Merry Christmas to all, especially all my readers. Hope there are cards in your holiday.
I’ll see you in a couple days, maybe even with some new cards to show.