October Consolation Gifts · Baseball
Four teams were eliminated in the 2026 Wild Card round. Their fan bases are back at home, the October storyline cut short. The best thing you can give a fan like that isn't hope for next year — it's a reminder of when their team was at its best.
Field & Ink makes hand-lettered scorecards of any MLB game from the last 100 years. Every at-bat, exactly as it happened, documented in the style of a classic press-box scorecard. It's $29 and a digital download — prints at home, fits a standard frame, ships in the next ten seconds.
October 2026 didn't go the way Wrigley Field expected. But October 2016 did. Cubs fans still talk about Game 7 — the rain delay, Schwarber, Bryant's barehanded stop, the throw that ended the longest drought in North American sports. That game is in the catalog. So is the 1945 pennant-clincher for the fan who wants to go even deeper.
Cubs 2016 World Series Game 7 →The Astros have been to the World Series four times since 2017. They won in 2017 and 2022. The 2022 clincher — Framber Valdez, Philadelphia, Yordan — is in the catalog. So is Jose Altuve's walk-off homer in the 2019 ALCS to beat the Yankees. An eliminated Astros fan doesn't need condolences. They need a reminder that this organization makes October runs the way most teams make fourth-place finishes.
Astros 2022 World Series Clincher →The Yankees shut them out and followed it up with a nine-run win. Boston fans know October. They know it the way only a fan base that was stranded at the bar for 86 years and then won four World Series titles in twenty can know it. The 2004 ALCS Game 7 is in the catalog — the night they came back from 3-0 to beat the Yankees. A fitting choice after losing to New York again. So is the 2004 World Series Game 4, the final out at Busch Stadium.
Red Sox 2004 World Series Clincher →The Phillies pushed the Braves to three games — the only team of the four eliminated Wild Card teams to do it. They went home on a 2-6 loss in Game 3, two wins away from the Division Series. Philadelphia fans have been here before — and before that, they were here in 2008, when Chase Utley's two-run homer in the first inning of Game 5 sent Tampa Bay home. That game is in the catalog.
Phillies 2008 World Series Clincher →There's something true about a baseball fan that distinguishes them from fans of other sports: they think in years, not weeks. An NFL fan forgets a loss in a month. A baseball fan carries October home with them until April. Sometimes longer.
The right consolation gift doesn't say "better luck next year." It says: here is a night from your team's history when everything worked — when the pitcher was unhittable, when the right batter came up in the right count, when the last out landed in the right glove. That night existed. Nobody can take it back. And now you can put it on your wall.
A hand-lettered scorecard for $29 is cheaper than almost anything else you might buy an eliminated fan — and it will still be on their wall in twenty years, long after whatever October team they're watching now is deep in some other October.
Over 120 MLB games in the catalog — spanning every franchise, from the 1920s through this past week. Instant digital download, $29, designed to print at home or at any copy shop. The 2026 postseason sale (20% off) runs through October 6.
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