Baseball fans, I need your help. I have been brainstorming how to raise money for Relay for Life, and I thought to put together some baseball baskets and maybe see if I can hold a silent auction during one of the more popular home games in the next month.

My question to you, is what kind of things would you want to bid on if you were looking at baskets like these? Hopefully I can take your suggestions and talk to a few businesses about donating some of the items. The only thing I can think of are sunflower seeds, because my boyfriend goes through so many during baseball season, and maybe autographed baseballs or batting helmets, etc.

All ideas are appreciated! Thank you for your time!

[This message has been edited by WH08PsyJayci (edited 2/25/2009 2:50p).]

I'd probably include at least two tickets to a future game (maybe the Texas series).

Autographed stuff would probably be easy to get if you just talk to the coaches and tell them what it's for.

Don't talk to the coaches, they probably will not answer emails, talk to director of public relations, they have an office in koldus, they handle all the autograph related stuff

thanks for the tip

The opportunity to throw the opening pitch would be a great prize to bid on.

I had a friend who did Relay for life a few years ago, really good cause

Also, throw some autographed softball pictures, those might help...and are alot easier to get

absolutely! i really appreciate the ideas!


auctioning off the opening pitch is actually a pretty cool idea!

[This message has been edited by WH08PsyJayci (edited 2/25/2009 5:36p).]

Auction me!!!

Pongo...we want to raise money.

oh...

why on earth would i auction YOU?

Jayci doesnt like to share.

so you could make oooooodles of money

oooooooodles of money for cancer! not for me! i think i'll stick with auctioning off the first pitch. thanks for making an offer, though

The only oodles you would get Pongo would be oodles of doodles on every auction sheet except yours.

I would definitely go talk to the PR guys, especially for a big program like Relays for Life, I bet they could set you up with some solid autographed stuff, at the least. I'm sure they could definitely set you up with a first-pitch, maybe over the prostate-cancer awareness weekend.

I think that a really sweet gift would be to try and put a basket together of equipment signed by the teams, like a bat signed by baseball, a football signed by football, soccer ball, etc.

If you could round one up from every team, or at least a lot of the teams, that would be a REALLY sweet collection that I would pay a LOT of money for (if I had a lot of money). I dunno how hard that would be to do, but it would be really cool.

a very good idea, mixing up the sports like that. thank you for your help!