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Red Sox Baby Album

Danger! Cuteness overload alert! It's a parade of baby Sox, and no one is safe! Take a peek through a collection of photos of the Sox players as kids at your own peril- they're just too adorable for words.

Who could this cute baby be? Take a guess, and find out if you're right-- and see a ton more baby Sox pictures-- after the jump...

If anyone has any additional pictures of any of the Sox as kids, send 'em my way and I'll add them to the group.

Jacoby Ellsbury

Theo Epstein

Dustin Pedroia
(including two pictures with his older brother Brett)

Curt Schilling

Manny Ramirez

Jon Lester
(with his younger cousin)

Jason Varitek

Tito Francona

Kevin Youkilis

Tim Wakefield

Josh Beckett

Doug Mirabelli

Mike Lowell

Trot Nixon (too cute not to include)

And our mystery Sox baby from up top was... Jonathan Papelbon. Here's more of baby Paps, who may be the cutest Sox baby of all time.

Thanks to jason-varitek.com for the pictures of kid Tek, to surviving grady for the picture of kid Theo, the Farmington Daily Times for the yearbook photo of kid Jacoby, and the Boston Globe, Jonathan Papelbon and family for the pictures of kid him.

Comments (23)

[ Huck8467 ] says:
on September 24, 2007 6:36 AM

OMG, I want to bite baby's Paps face. LOL So damn cute.

[ Amy ] says:
on September 24, 2007 8:39 AM

ohmygod. I'm dead from cute overload, for sure.

[ save the steagles ] says:
on September 24, 2007 5:13 PM

Alright TG, even you must admit Beckett was one fugly teenager. Thankfully, you gave us the cuteness of BabyPap to cleanse the palate.

[ Liza ] says:
on September 24, 2007 6:07 PM

Aww, Jacoby was so adorable even at that age! And Beckett really was no eye-candy.

WHOA. The first one of 'Tek looks exactly like this kid from my eighth grade class (whom I detested, but anyway)... scary!

[ Luv the Sox ] says:
on September 24, 2007 7:25 PM

Does anyone else think that Jacoby could pass for a little girl with really short hair?

[ AntoineWalkerFan ] says:
on September 24, 2007 8:01 PM

OMG they were so cute.

Papelbon is superman.lol

[ SoxxGirl ] says:
on September 24, 2007 10:49 PM

I'm loving Baby-Pap. But Joshie? Holy cow - talk about an ugly duckling.

[ mouse ] says:
on September 25, 2007 2:52 AM

Hilarious. All of them.

Where'd you find all of these pictures anyway? (Aside from the places you mentioned.) I'm sure the players just *love* the thought of their past selves floating around the internet for us to point and laugh at. :)

[ Texas Gal ] says:
on September 25, 2007 3:30 AM

Awwww, poor unfortunate(looking) Josh. He definitely has grown finer with age.

And the pictures mostly all came from newspapers- the Globe in particular, and a paper in Bend, OR for the Jacoby picture. The only one I'm clueless where I found it is the Tito picture- but I'm pretty sure that was on a newspaper website at some point as well. The Papelbon pictures all were submitted by his mom (I believe) for a feature story on him last year.

[ christa ] says:
on October 22, 2007 10:39 PM

poor josh...he was like the homely semi-fat kid you would talk to in class only if he was sitting next to you...thank god he can throw a mean fastball

[ Tracy ] says:
on October 25, 2007 8:39 PM

LOL, Mirabelli looks exactly. the. same. Does anyone know how old he was in that pic?

And as for Beckett, I think it's really just the first one that's less-than-flattering; probably just a bad shot. The 2nd one looks fine though. (:

Great pics of everyone!

[ mermaidmarian ] says:
on November 20, 2007 5:15 AM

The one of Paps in the Superman costume? It needs to be a poster.

Is that second picture of Dustin his Rookie card? >smirk

Theo's picture suggests he has been preparing for the "team manager" role since about 2nd grade.

[ starr4 ] says:
on November 20, 2007 8:10 AM

Apparently, I am the only one who finds the first Beckett picture adorable in that he looks really happy, unguarded, open. Clearly being superb at something has a price, cause he rarely looks this happy-goofy now (exceptions: WS and ALCS wins). No doubt some will report this to be a very good thing.

Mike Lowell, always was yummy.

Love the Tito pix.

[ Piney61 ] says:
on November 20, 2007 12:52 PM

Oh you forgot this one: http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y1/Piney/2006_Red_Sox/babywake.jpg

I dunno where I found it to be honest....I think it was from one of those Sox I Know things...I forget exactly

[ Piney61 ] says:
on November 20, 2007 12:53 PM

Wait...scractch that...I missed it first round *needs to look harder next time*

[ Jolie ] says:
on November 20, 2007 4:28 PM

HAHAHA omg WIN. Paps is hysterical looking as a child, and why does PeeWee have that pic of Youk?

[ Ellen ] says:
on November 22, 2007 1:39 PM

Apropos of the SuperPaps needing to be a poster, would there be any ownership problems with making a Baby Sox desktop wallpaper? And would anybody else be interested if I were a dork enough to make one?

[ kayla ] says:
on January 10, 2008 11:45 AM

absolutely LOVE dustin, adorable as always

[ kerdc@hotmail.com ] says:
on March 25, 2008 1:26 PM

Useful site. Thank you:-)

[ Katie ] says:
on May 13, 2008 3:07 PM

Pedroia was so cute! I still

Beckett was one off those kids in school nobody liked. that changed a lot.

[ Julie ] says:
on June 24, 2008 11:08 PM

OMG that was the greatest thing i have EVER seen!

GO PEDROIA!!!!!!!!!

[ Kristi ] says:
on October 24, 2008 11:12 PM

Hands down favorite the one with paps and the dog asleep on the couch. Probably the only time you will see a completly calm and still papelbon.

[ roberta limoli-barufaldi ] says:
on November 19, 2008 3:57 PM

just loved the photos, they were so cute,but, when they grew up they were something....

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