BASEBALL GREATS  MSC Cruises hits a home run hosting a series of baseball-themed cruises in the eastern Caribbean aboard MSC Poesia. Each voyage features at least five baseball stars, including Cookie Rojas, Ken Griffey Sr., Stan Bahnsen, and Rico Petrocelli. Players host trivia games, question-and-answer sessions, and storytelling events. Hone your skills in pitching, hitting, and defense strategy clinics, and enter the passenger pitching contest. At the end of each cruise the players sign autographs. Round trip from Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Feb. 23, March 9, April 6. Rates from $559 (February) and $499. 877-665-4655, www.msccruisesusa.com/us_en/Cruise-Departures/Theme-Cruises/Baseball-Greats-Cruise.aspx

BARBIE PREMIUM EXPERIENCE Royal Caribbean International is partnering with Mattel to feature a Barbie cruise package for girls 4 to 11. Staterooms decorated in the doll’s signature style feature keepsakes such as a Barbie doll and fashions, blanket and pillowcase, tote bag, toothbrush, and toiletries bag. Activities include a “Tiaras and Teacups” party, mermaid dance class, fashion design workshop, fashion show, and more. Available on Oasis of the Seas and Allure of the Seas, and on the rest of the fleet in March. Add-on package cost $349. 866-562-7625, www.royalcaribbean.com/statichtmlpage.do?pagename=Barbie

“DANCING WITH THE STARS”  Kick up your heels on one of Holland America Line’s dancing cruises. Here’s your chance to meet the dancers, take lessons, and enjoy performances starring the pros and celebrity competitors from the TV show, including two-time champions Mark Ballas and Kym Johnson, and Tristan MacManus and Lacey Schwimmer. Various dates and destinations: Feb. 16, MS Eurodam, seven-day eastern Caribbean; June 22, MS Veendam, seven-day Canada and New England; June 30 and July 7, MS Oosterdam, seven-day Alaska, and more. Rates depend on destinations. 2013 from $899; 2014 from $699. 877-932-4259, www.hollandamerica.com/pageByName/Simple.action?requestPage=DWTS  

STEAMPUNK  Pack your best retro-futuristic Victorian duds and set sail on Royal Caribbean’s Navigator of the Seas on the First Annual Steampunk Cruise and High Seas Ball. Billed as “Downtown Abby meets Jules Verne,” this fast-growing genre of literature, fashion, music, and culture is best described as Victorian science fiction. The seven-night trip departs from New Orleans and sails to Grand Cayman, Jamaica, and Cozumel, Mexico, March 16-23. Features author G.D. Falksen, music by This Way to the Egress, appearances by writer and puppeteer Mary Robinette Kowal, a Chrononauts Parade, a Great Mad Scientists Monologue Competition, film festival, vintage bathing suit contest, and more. Cabins for two from $909 per person. 855-783-2600, www.steampunkcruise.com

ARCHEOLOGICAL TOURS  Visit archeological sites while enjoying Sicily’s rugged beauty on the Sicily, Malta, and the Aeolian Islands voyage, April 29-May 7, sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA). Lecturer and host Albert Leonard Jr. leads the group on a circumnavigation of the islands, highlighting the ways that Greek, Roman, Arab, Norman, Christian, Jewish, Byzantine, and Muslim cultural experiences intermingle. All accommodations aboard the 290-foot Corinthian are suites with sea views, some with balconies. All AIA Tours small ship cruises anchor at ports and historic towns that larger ships cannot visit. Pricing from $6,990 per person, double occupancy. 800-748-6262, www.archaeological.org/tours