San Francisco Giants
There’s a Giants fan in your life who has everything. Or thinks they do. The fitted 2010 jersey. The replica World Series hat stretched out from recounting the story too many times. Knows all about Oracle Park whether you wanted to know or not.
Buying for that Giant fan is tough, because anything obvious they’ve already got and anything generic will insult them just a little bit. We know this because we’ve been that Giants fan, we’ve gotten those gifts, we know exactly how disappointing it feels to open something with Giants embroidered on the front but nothing else noteworthy on it.
So we took our time with this guide. We didn’t want to fill it with stuff just because it had a logo on it and therefore ‘qualified’ as a gift. Each of these items was curated with one question in mind: Would we give this to the tough crowd? Would we give it to that person who literally bleeds orange and black, who can recall where they were sitting when Madison Bumgarner graced the mound, who has opinions about how one properly watches a baseball game?
If it couldn’t pass that test it didn’t make the cut. All of these gifts actually say something about the person you’re buying for, or else will help them show off their Giants pride. We’ve rounded up gifts we’d reach for if buying for ourselves when it really matters: the serious fan, the birthday, the Father’s Day, a friend who needs to know you understand how important loyalty to a team can be. Bonus points if it’s useful. Giants fandom is never casual. Sure, you can win them with cookies and dogs, but being a Giants fan is part of who they are. It’s tied to family, and geography, and memories in a way that most datasets only baseball can. The best way to honor that Giant fan in your life is with a gift that recognizes that – without getting too sappy – that they’ll actually use, or wear, or display where they’ll see it everyday. Opens nicely, but lasts well past the excitement of opening it.
We’ve done the digging so you don’t have to spend your afternoon clicking past dozens of orange product filler that technically have Giants logos on them, but aren’t anything special.