And many of our vendors can still get your products shipped to you in time for Christmas. Order now and if you need expedited shipping mention it in the Note to Seller at checkout. We'll see what we can do to get it there and under the tree.

We'd like to hear from you! What other products would you like to see us carry? More soccer, baseball, lacrosse, hockey, football, tennis, field hockey, basketball? Anything specific? We'll negotiate the best prices and make sure this is the more value. Let us know by sending an email to customerservice@upstartsports.com

We watched a high school soccer game last night and saw several girls work very hard to get open shots only to make it very easy on the goalie by shooting it right at her. Maybe their coach needs to pick up a PK Pro - Sniper Net/store/p71/PK_Pro_-_Sniper_Net.html. This innovative product trains players to aim for the outside edges of the goal and stay away from the middle. Get it before the end of the year and use promo code DEC15 to get 10% off!

And your high-schooler or Little Leaguer is sure to love their MOAB (Mother of All Bats) RUDE American metal crusher. Finest engineering, made in the USA, it will drop bombs. And remember that until the end of the year, if you use promo code DEC!5 you'll get 10% off any purchase!

We have an array of youth sports novels that would make great gifts to any young readers on your list. Hanging In There, by Brian Gotta is a great story of overcoming disappointment and brotherly love. Here is the first page:

Ted “Wildcat” Logan sat on the aluminum bleachers at Tigers Park watching a Youth League baseball game and thought about how his baseball career was going about as horribly as it possibly could.
And if that wasn't enough, now it looked like in a few weeks the rest of his life would be just as bad.
Ted had tried out for the Youth League when he was ten and when he was eleven. Both years he got cut and didn’t get to play. This season was the last one he was eligible to play in the league and he had been sure he was going to make it. He was twelve, and he’d been practicing during the winter with his dad and big brother, Gary. But when the time came to find his name on a roster, he’d been disappointed again.
When Gary, who played high school ball, learned that Ted still hadn’t made a team he got really mad. He decided to go talk to some of the coaches and see if there was an extra spot on a roster they could let Ted have, but their dad wouldn’t let him.
“He needs to make the team on his own and prove he deserves to be there. It doesn’t do him any good for us to come in and save the day,” Mr. Logan had said.
Ted's best friend, Mickey Baker was a star shortstop in the league, and his dad coached Mickey's team, the Yankees. Coach Baker had explained to Ted that when you get older it’s just harder to make the team.
“It’s not that you weren’t good,” he told him. “Most of the teams had nearly a full roster coming back from last season and it was hard for anyone to make it. But when coaches draft new players they usually want them to be ten or eleven so that they’ll have them on the team at least two years. If I hadn’t had my whole squad back I’d have picked you up for sure.”
So now, not only was Ted facing another summer without baseball, but in three weeks Gary would be leaving home and going off to college. And to top it all off, right about the same time that Gary would be going away, something else was going to happen. Ted, who was already one of the smallest boys in sixth grade, was going to have to leave the only school he'd ever gone to and move up to Wyatt Middle School where there would be a bunch of huge ninth graders.

Its not a ridiculous question. Our Backyard Batting Cages are everything you didn't think they would be: Affordable, (starting at around $400.00), easy to assemble, (how's 30 minutes or less?) and not permanent (take them down for the winter, set them up for tournaments, transportable). We're offering 10% off any purchase this month when you use the code DEC15. What better way to use it than by setting up a cage in the backyard for your avid baseball or softball player and watching their face light up Christmas morning!

In nearly every sport, agility is the name of the game. If you are a player or coach you know that cones and ladders are good, but have their limitations. With our Zoid Fitness set you can arrange nearly limitless patterns which promotes more individualized and diverse training. Special patterns can be created for your sport. If you play or coach soccer, basketball, lacrosse, field hockey, football, baseball, softball, tennis or a host of other sports, you'll love your Zoid Agility Trainer.

Its coming up fast, we know! But when you take shipping times into account we want to make sure you know that time is running out to order your baseball gloves, bats, training equipment, soccer goals, lacross goals, ice therapy packs, sunglasses and other great items. Don't wait! Order today and get it in time for Christmas!

Someone on your list need a new baseball glove or batting gloves? How about a great wood bat or metal bat? We've got tons of fantastic soccer products as well as baseball sunglasses, lacrosse goals, batting tees, pop-up nets for coaches, stretch bands for baseball players and much, much more. Take a look around and see what you'd like. You'll be glad we found it for you!