How to Host a World Series Party at Home

If you host it they will come! The MLB may be the official host of The World Series but it’s the fans that have made it a sports tradition loaded with nostalgia. It’s your right to celebrate the series with a party at your place. Just bring a little bit of the ballpark home to set the stage...I mean stadium.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Food and beverage
• Bags of peanuts
• Paper, printer and baseball quotes
• Astroturf
• Lyrics to “Take Me out to the Ballgame”
• Sunflower seeds, baseball cards
• Homeplate
• Prizes
• Score board, team colors, baseball memorabilia

1. Play Ball! Send a pack of sunflower seeds with a baseball card and the party details: date, time, location, RSVP, etc. “This year’s World Series is being hosted at _________ stadium” (enter your name or nickname).

2. Mark the party by laying a home plate at the front door.

3. Decorate with a score board, team colors, pennants and baseball memorabilia.

4. Lay Astroturf under the main party area.

5. Think hawker style when it comes to the menu: wrap hamburgers and hot dogs in foil, pile snacks like sunflowers seeds, peanuts and Cracker Jacks into galvanized tubs and don’t forget to serve soft pretzels, pizza, nachos, soft drinks, beer and ice cream.

6. Feature a peanut toss. There is a famous vendor at Dodgers Stadium that can throw a bag of peanuts to any guest in the stands and not miss no matter what. Take his cue and try your own peanut throwing contest--may the best arm win. Set up targets that the contestants try to hit with a bag of peanuts. A volunteer referee judges them on accuracy and style. The winner takes home a baseball cap and a DVD of the movie "Field Of Dreams".

7. Include a quiz based on famous baseball quotes. Whoever guesses the authors of the most quotes wins a color sueded baseball. Find them online by using key words “suede baseballs." Find baseball quotes online using key words “famous baseball quotes”.

8. Print the words to “Take Me out to the Ballgame” so everyone can sing during the 7th inning stretch.

9. Have everyone enter into a pool before the game starts. Print out a list of things that might happen during the game. You can make it personal, and have everyone pitch in $5 for the grand prize. Here is an example of things you might bet on:
   •How many times will grandma leave to go to the bathroom?
   •Who will throw something at the TV first?
   •Which guest will be the first to spill a drink?
   •Who will give the first high-five?
   •Who will get in an argument first?
   •Who will break the seal first?

[nanomatrix]

on 10/17/2007 I lost interest in the World Series when I watched the Phillies go 0-3. However I must say the author of this article put effort into this article, and you don't always see that on the web!

[Bob-Loblaw]

on 10/17/2007 This sounds like a birthday party for elementary school kids.

[AaronS]

on 10/20/2006 This is fabulous advice and includes stuff I never would have thought of, which explains why some of myown parties are ones you can be glad you missed. It's obvious the writer knows baseball, too.(Wonder if she has any inside dope on the Series' likely outcome.)
A in Monterey