Safety is important so a batting helmet is a must for a young (or not-so-young) baseball player, but these helmets need not be boring. You can get all sorts of custom helmets if you check around online.
This “Fear This” girl’s batting helmet is from MecaBrush, and you can get your name painted on it and choose the colors for the flames, words, and lightning. It’s just one of many designs the outfit does, so you can really get a custom job that reflects your personality.
If you’ve already got a perfectly good batting helmet, you can also get inexpensive decals (one pictured below) to stick on it to add a bit of fun. An easy way to spice up your game!
Got a big baseball game with your colleagues coming up this weekend? Want to get in a little extra practice but can’t get away from the office? Perhaps what you need is a desktop “executive batting practice” baseball pitching machine.
While this may not improve your game all that much (though it can help remind you to keep your eye on the ball!), it looks like a fun way to relieve some tension (as long as your balls don’t knock staplers, hole punchers, and presentation materials for the boss into the trash). You probably don’t want to try this if you’re in a cubicle though… unless you’re co-workers don’t mind the occasional whacks on the head.
“Simply turn on the mini pitching machine and you’re ready to thwack a few dingers. Comes complete with 12 soft plastic mini-baseballs (they’re a little bigger than a golf ball) and a compact-able bat that folds up like a telescope for convenient storage.”
$25 from One of a Kind Stuff
If your kid has dreams of becoming a Major League Baseball pitcher some day, then this radar pitch baseball could be a fun gift (and, hey, you can play with it too). The ball has a small LCD screen that displays the speed of the latest pitch. Throw it any distance (little league or pro), and the ball has no trouble using internal sensing technology to measure and report the velocity of the pitch when it’s caught. To save on battery life, it shuts off automatically if you don’t use it for 2 minutes.
The ball is available from Brookstone for $25:
Radar Pitch Baseball