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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New York Yankees fans could use this timely stadium giveaway, handed out on August 30, 2008, to count down the days until their beloved team left its
longtime stadium. Of course, it might not be suitable to calculate their ridiculous payroll unless they add a few more spaces for extra digits on the display.

It does seem a bit strange to give away a calculator at a baseball game. I mean, hats, t-shirts, beer mugs, boom sticks, etc. all seem a lot more like reasonable promotional items. Maybe the calculator symbolizes the fact that a large chunk of NYC’s economy revolves around finance and number crunching.

So, maybe you don’t own a baseball team. But maybe you work for some sort of company. Really, any company. If baseball teams can give away promotional calculators, surely almost every other organization would benefit as much (I would assume more) from such a giveaway. Slap your logo on the top, and propagate it effortlessly. After all, calculators make their way to desktops, home offices, and schools. And, occasionally, baseball stadiums.

Posted: October 3rd, 2008 under Baseball, stadium giveaways.
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