Baseball Gifts

Do you need to buy a gift for a baseball enthusiast? If you know who their favorite teams or players are, you definitely have some options. A t-shirt or jersey showing their favorite player or team is an excellent choice. Tickets to a baseball game is also a very thoughtful gift - the games can be too expensive to attend very often. When buying game tickets, it's a nice touch to use some care in buying the tickets - in baseball there are 81 home games for each teams, and some games are more attractive than others. Try to buy tickets that have some meaning to the fan. If you have no idea what games might be good, here are some guidelines to follow:

1. If the fan has moved, tickets for the team where he's from is a great choice (for instance, if he recently moved from Seattle to Los Angeles, try and get tickets for the Los Angeles Dodgers playing the Seattle Mariners.)
2. There are "high profile" baseball teams that everyone likes to see, whether they love them or hate them. Teams in this category include the New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs, Atlanta Braves, Oakland A's, St. Louis Cardinals and Los Angeles Dodgers.
3. Weekend games are usually the best choice, if possible.

If you follow those rules, baseball tickets will be a great gift.

Baseball fans love to read about their sport as much as possible. Out favorite magazine for baseball lovers (and sports in general) is The Sporting News. It's a weekly magazine full of great information, and is more timely than the other choices out there (Sports Illustrated, etc.) There are several great books and videos out about baseball, too. We've listed the best choices below, but you really can't go wrong with any choices.