Does a kid actually need a whole book of mazes and word searches themed around baseball? Not strictly, but it beats another rain delay spent staring at a tablet.
Handing a kid this book instead of a phone quietly signals to every grandparent in the room that you are the “good” parent this week.
Compared to a video game that costs sixty dollars and gets abandoned within a month, fourteen dollars for a hundred pages of puzzles that lasts a whole season is a pretty good trade.
Buried somewhere between the word searches is the accidental lesson that baseball math still counts as math, which is exactly the kind of loophole a kid deserves to discover.
The book covers coloring, dot to dot, mazes, and puzzles, enough variety that it does not get finished, and abandoned, in one sitting.
A solid, low effort gift for any young baseball fan stuck indoors, on a road trip, or waiting out a rain delay.