Baseball as a family habit, one game at a time

Ask a lifelong fan how they got into baseball and the answer is almost never a player. It's a person. A dad who kept score in pencil, a grandmother who knew every lineup by heart, an uncle who drove three hours just to see a new ballpark. Baseball travels through families better than almost any sport.

This section is for those families, the ones who already have traditions and the ones trying to start some. We write about taking a kid to a first game and keeping it short enough to end on a high note, teaching scorekeeping at the kitchen table, breaking in a glove the slow way, and sorting through a shoebox of old baseball cards together.

We'll cover family-friendly ballparks, road trips that work with kids in the back seat, and how to make game day affordable. Mostly, we want to help you build the kind of baseball memory someone in your family will still be telling at a cookout 30 years from now.