General

• Rain check, a new ticket for the make-up game if a baseball game is started but does not reach the point of becoming official: now in general use as an agreement for a merchant to provide to a customer an out-of-stock sale item at a later date. At grocery stores, if an item is on sale (offer) and the merchant has run out of the item, the customer may request a rain check in order that he/she may get the item at a later date at the sale price.

Literature

• Rain Check (1946), a science-fiction novel by Lewis Padgett
  Lewis Padgett
  Lewis Padgett was the joint pseudonym of the science fiction authors and spouses Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore, taken from their mothers' maiden names. They also used the pseudonyms Lawrence O'Donnell and C. H...
  
  
• Rain-Check (1956), a poem by Raymond Souster
  Raymond Souster
  Raymond Holmes Souster, OC is a Canadian poet whose writing career spans almost 70 years. He has published more than 50 volumes of his own verse, and edited or co-edited a dozen volumes of others' poetry...
  
  

Music

• "Rain check", a song composed by Billy Strayhorn from the 1967 album ...And His Mother Called Him Bill, released by jazz legend Duke Ellington
  • "Rain Check" (1978), included on the jazz album Toshiko Plays Billy Strayhorn
    Toshiko Plays Billy Strayhorn
    Toshiko Plays Billy Strayhorn is a jazz album recorded by two different configurations of the Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio in 1978...
    
    
  • "Rain Check" (1990), included on the three-CD album The Blanton–Webster Band
    The Blanton–Webster Band
    The Blanton–Webster Band combines the master takes of all the recordings by Duke Ellington's Orchestra during the years of 1940 to 1942, involving bassist Jimmy Blanton and tenor saxophonist Ben Webster. The recordings were originally made for RCA Victor during what many critics regard as the...
    
    
• "Rain Check" (1997), a song from the re-released album The Polyfuze Method Revisited by Kid Rock
• "Rain Check" (2004), a song from the album Educated Guess
  Educated Guess
  Educated Guess is the thirteenth album by singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco, released January 20, 2004 . It was recorded alone at her homes in Buffalo, New York and New Orleans, Louisiana.-Track listing:All songs by Ani DiFranco....
  
  by singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco
• "Raincheck" (1971), backing side of a vinyl single by Trousers released by HappySad Records
  HappySad Records
  HappySad Records is the name of an independent record label founded in 1971 by Paul Levinson and Ed Fox, taken over by Levinson in 1972.Its major release was rediscovered and described thirty years later, in July 2002, in Japan's Record Collectors Magazine as "human mystical pop music"...
  
  
• "Raincheck" (1972), from the LP record Twice Upon a Rhyme
  Twice Upon a Rhyme
  Twice Upon a Rhyme is an LP record by Paul Levinson with Ed Fox and Peter Rosenthal. It was released in 1972 by HappySad Records on vinyl....
  
  by Paul Levinson
• "Raincheck" (1995), from the album Days Like This by Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison