Baseball Party 8 years old For my son's 8th birthday I printed up invitations on sports stationary that said What do Cal Ripken, Jr and T. have in common?  A love of baseball and the number 8 of course!  Please join us for Ts 8th birthday! (I made very big 8s.)  We served baseball food for lunch hot dogs, peanuts, cracker jacks, nachos and soda.  I served the nuts and dips in plastic batting helmets with baseball team logos. (The kind you can get sundaes in at some ice cream shops) The cake was a baseball diamond. I baked a cake in 2 square pans. I iced the cake with green icing then did the edges in brown. I placed a white piece of taffy on each corner to make the bases. I cut a piece of taffy in half to make the pitcher's mound.  We placed 2 Lego kids on the cake one running to first and the other on the pitcher's mound. We took a Lego spear and buried the point in the icing so the handle looked like a bat lying on the ground next to the home plate.  We had baseball bat candles as well. For entertainment, the boys mostly played baseball in our yard.  We did have a large, inflatable catcher with a net for a catcher's mitt and had pitching practice. We also had a race to see who could steal the bases quickest.  I gave baseball cards to the winners of the race and to any of our pitchers who got one of his pitches into the net. We also had batting practice with a baseball shaped piñata.  For party favors, we gave out candy filled bats, baseball bubble gumballs, pencils with baseballs, baseball whistles and large inflated baseballs.  He received many baseball themed gifts as well from his guests an Orioles t-shirt and pants, a baseball and bat, baseball cards, and a baseball beanbag chair.  My son said, This was the best party in my whole life!