For those Minor League baseball teams that can’t offer to send fans away in used cars (see Reading Phillies post below), it turns out they can still offer a different set of wheels. The Lancaster JetHawks gave away skateboards to their first 500 kids at a game this past season! And for the parents of those lucky children, they gave a year of free medical coverage for skateboard related accidents! Ok, fine, that part’s not true.

If you want to give away promotional items, but maybe would rather not risk the lawsuits that might follow from turning them loose on skateboards, frisbees provide timeless fun for everyone. They advertise for you as they fly, and they don’t require helmets or knee pads for use!

Posted: October 29th, 2008 under Baseball, stadium giveaways.
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Sometimes you go to a baseball game for a free bobblehead. Sometimes you even get a free souvenir in the form of a foul ball. And sometimes, yes sometimes, you get a free used car.

Minor League baseball’s Reading Phillies began a promotion dubbed Pimp My Clunker last May to give away beat up but serviceable cars to lucky fans. The Phillies’ director of communication described the vehicles as having “passed inspection, but just barely. Four tires and duct tape come standard on most cars.” I once had a car that fit that description stolen from a baseball parking lot, so I think I should be first in line!

If you want to watch some minor league baseball and potentially win a junkyard scraper, check out the Reading Phillies website. Or, if you think promotional car giveaway sounds like a good idea, but you might want to do it on a smaller and less expensive scale, check these guys out.

Posted: October 22nd, 2008 under Baseball, stadium giveaways.
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