Tennessee wife Heather Winfree surprised her baseball-loving husband Steve with news of his kidney donor match by gifting him a pack of cards

Tennessee Man Finds Out Wife Is Kidney Donor Match with Custom Baseball Card: 'You Want to Save My Life?'

For a baseball fan, nothing beats the feeling of opening a brand new pack of baseball cards — except when one of those cards can save your life!

Heather Winfree of Tennessee surprised her husband Steve Winfree with news that she’s his kidney donor match by gifting him a pack of cards — with a very special message inside.

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Steve, who started dialysis for kidney disease in November, loves baseball cards and uses them as a distraction from his condition. So, the Atlanta Braves fan wasn’t totally startled when his wife gave him a pack of Topps cards with players like Mike Trout and Clint Frazier.

“There were a lot of times where he would be in the hospital and I would grab a pack and we would open them,” Heather explained to MLB.com. “The low-key fun gets our minds off of the every day stresses.”

The big shock came when he started flipping through the pack — and came across a card with his own photo on it. He began reading it aloud, through tears, before realizing the card revealed he had been matched with a kidney donor — and that match was Heather.

“I love you!” Heather, who filmed the sweet moment, tells him. “I love you so much, Steve.”

Steve said: “I knew something was up because she never films me.

“I saw it coming, but I lost it and I asked her, ‘You want to save my life?’ ”

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