With baseball lagging in third place behind football and basketball for the nation’s attention, folks are coming up with innovative ideas to get people to the ballpark. This is true for both the majors as well as the lower levels. Take the Battle Creek Bombers, a Michigan-based team in the Northwoods League – a group [...]

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What could be better than getting a foul ball at a major league baseball game? In my opinion, not very much. But, what happens if said ball winds up in your beer? You might be a reasonable person and take the ball out, dry it off, and go on your merry way. Or, like the [...]

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Perhaps there is some validity to the claim that everything is bigger in Texas. The Texas Rangers are just stepping up to the plate to solidify it. And really, is there anyone better suited to pitch anything with ease then Team president Nolan Ryan? In a recent radio interview he enthusiastically boasted the new addition [...]

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While it pains me to write anything to do with the New York Yankees, the story about the fan that caught Jeter’s 3,000 hit, which happened to be a home run ball, is pretty cool. A 23 year-old Yankees fan from just north of the city caught the famous ball, and then graciously offered to [...]

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Serious Eats attended the media day for concessions and food at Citi Field (the new Mets stadium) and boy does stuff look good. The stadium will feature NYC’s third Shake Shack location as well as a “Catch a Day” fish shack and many more treats.  I won’t say much more. Serious Eat’s Robyn Lee took [...]

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A minor league baseball team in Sauget, Illinois, called the Gateway Grizzlies have been assembling an impressive list of food offerings. Their newest one for this season? “Baseball’s Best Soft Preztel.” It’s a Super Preztel marinated in Frank’s Red Hot Buffalo Wing sauce and topped with melted mozzarella cheese. Served, of course, with ranch or [...]

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The NY Times Travel section has a great article on the increasingly delicious foods available in America’s ballparks. Even cooler than the article itself, an interactive map, that allows you to click on all the different ballparks across the country. For each ballpark, the writers suggest a food to order and a food to avoid. [...]

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Wow, these might be the greatest TV ads ever.

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Yes, it must be the start of baseball season, as I’ve managed to make 4 posts in a rowthat are food related, but also connected to baseball. However, this one is just too interesting to pass up. From The Boston Herald, via The Slanch Report, comes news that Fenway Park has installed a new hot [...]

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Screwballs, a baseball blog over at Fox Sports, has posted a recap of, and pictures from, the Red Sox-Dodgers game held at L.A. Coliseum. The crowd of 115,300 may be a world record for the most people in attendance ever at a baseball game. But what jumped out at me from the posting on Screwballs, [...]

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