One of the best parts of owning a personalized baseball gifts site, is having the ability to touch the lives of others. When you first visit us, the goal is usually to buy something for the kids and make them feel as though their involvement in sports really paid off. It's a great feeling watching a child win something, but as an adult, it's even more fun providing the smiles around the league.

A couple years ago, we were keeping extremely busy with the end of the baseball season growing near. The school year was in full swing, but there were some kids who were playing "Fall-Ball." Evidently this was something new that a city in the Midwest was trying, but it seemed to be a little unorganized according to the coach that called us.

He said the league was not set up to give out any awards for the Fall-Ball interaction. He wanted to do something for his kids on the team, so he called us asking for help. Unfortunately, we were a little worried because October is one of the busiest parts of the year for us. Between the first month of football, getting ready for basketball, and fall soccer in full swing we were completely short-handed.

His name is John, and he had a week to come up with something good. After spending about 2 1/2 hours on the phone with him, we agreed on the best personalized gifts for the situation. See, most of the kids were burnt out on baseball and it was more of a playtime for them than anything else. If we didn't come up with something unique, they may not want to return next season.

So we pulled all our resources together, worked a substantial amount of overtime, and gave John our greatest creation ever. It was a baker dozen set of home plate plaques with photo baseballs as a centerpiece. The idea behind these personalized baseball gifts was to give the child something that they could remember other than just playing a few pick-up games.

John has been an avid baseball coach for seven years in their areas Minor Leagues. It's the equivalent to instructional league in most areas for ages 8-11 years of age. His wife Stacy has been taking pictures of the kids on the team during games for years and when they sent us the best ones they could find of this year's bunch, we had them put on each one of the baseballs.

Once everything was set up, we sent them the personalized baseball gifts within a few days. They were so ecstatic about the results that we got a voice mail right after their team's ceremony thanking us for a job well done and explaining everything that happened. It was great to think about all the smiles we provided and best of all the kids signed up to play last year.

It's great to know we can do something that we love like make personalized baseball gifts, and still be able to make a difference in a parent or child's life. Who knows, we may end up recreating this situation with many other families and teams throughout the season. Hopefully, in the upcoming months we'll can do the same for you.