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What happens to the bobbleheads the Red Sox planned to give away in lost season?


The boxes are stacked in an offsite storage facility, the whimsical best intentions of a baseball season gone awry. Hundreds of cardboard containers hold thousands of hats, comic books, water tumblers and bobbleheads — the ballpark giveaways the Red Sox, quite literally, could not give away this year.

Turns out, we’re supposed to have Xander Bogaerts socks on our feet this winter, but Fenway Park never fully opened, so the boxes sit and wait.

“We were fortunate,” Red Sox executive vice president and chief marketing officer Adam Grossman said. “Just looking at the players and some of the items, knock on wood, we haven’t had to mothball anything.”

Of all the places to find good luck in 2020, the Red Sox have it stuffed inside a box of plastic made to look like Rafael Devers. They’re lucky it doesn’t look like Mookie Betts.

Ballpark giveaways are a well-worn baseball tradition dating back at least to…





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