The Baseball Christmas Gift Nobody Else Will Think Of

Why a Scorecard Makes the Best Baseball Christmas Gift

The baseball fan on your Christmas list has a jersey. They have hats. They have a cup from the ballpark that year and a phone full of highlights they've watched forty times. What they don't have is the game — not the way it unfolded, pitch by pitch, in real time, the way the people in the stadium saw it.

A Field & Ink scorecard is the official play-by-play record of a single game — any game from the last 100 years — scored in real handwriting, in real ink, from the actual game log. Every at-bat. Every pitch result. Every stolen base and strikeout and walk, the same way a fan in the stands would have kept it in their scorebook. The difference is the handwriting: the founder's actual hand, not a font, not a digital facsimile. Something that looks like it was kept by someone who was there.

It's a $29 digital download. It delivers instantly. There is no shipping deadline, no December 23rd panic. You pick the game, it arrives in your inbox, and you print it or frame it or have it printed at any print shop. The last game your dad still talks about. The night the drought ended. The walk-off that kept baseball in a city. Whatever game it is, it fits in a frame and goes on a wall and stays there.

Choosing the Right Game

The catalog covers more than 100 years of baseball history — more than 40 specific games available now, with any game from the Retrosheet archive available on request. If you're not sure which game to pick, the best starting point is the simplest one: which team does he follow, and what's the game they still talk about?

For most fans, it's a playoff game. A clincher. A walk-off. A night when something improbable happened and the person you're buying for was watching every pitch. Browse by team below:

The Gift That Arrives Instantly, No Matter When You Order

There is no shipping on a digital download. Order on December 24th and it arrives in your inbox in minutes. Print it at home, take it to a print shop, or send it directly to the person you're buying for — it's a PDF that looks as good on a $15 frame from the drugstore as it does in something more expensive. The game doesn't get less real because of how it's framed.

The $29 price covers the digital download. Framed prints and premium sizes ($59, $99, and $199) are available on request — email hello@fieldandink.art for those. For Christmas, the digital is the right answer: no lead time, no shipping deadline, no size decisions before you know what frame you're putting it in.

For Every Baseball Fan on Your List

The dad who kept score at every game he took you to. The grandpa who still talks about the night the team he grew up with finally won. The husband who marks the October schedule in his calendar every year. The boyfriend who started your baseball education. The family friend who has everything a baseball fan could want — except this.

One game. Every pitch. Real ink. $29.