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As the summer approaches, children across the country are getting ready for their annual season of little league. Considered to be the national pastime, little league baseball began in the 1930’s and has since gained national and international popularity. Many children even grow up to play ball in high school, college, and beyond. With a growing amount of competition, many coaches and athletes are searching out ways to improve their hitting and fielding skills. Many turn to pitching machines.

Invented in 1987 by Charles Hinton, the pitching machine has become a staple at many parks, universities, and baseball training facilities across the country. Hinton’s original machine was powered by gunpowder and is now available in different styles, power sources, prices and difficulty ranges. At Dazadi, we understand how important it can be to find just the right pitching machine at just the right price. Fortunately, we offer a wide range of machines to choose from.

Some children begin playing baseball or tee-ball at a young age. Pitching machines that include a soft-toss feature are perfect for these rookie players. Machines such as the Heater Starting Pitcher Pitching Machine deliver pitches at slow speeds to help build confidence with flying pitches. Machines that toss lite-balls, which are made of lightweight material are also great. The Heater Slider Pitching Machine and the Crusher Curve Pitching Machine toss lite and mini lite-balls that are usually sting free and capable of home use.

In little league, coaches can look to machines that deliver a wide variety of pitches to grow with the players who use them. Heater features a great line of machines that are fairly inexpensive, portable, and easy to use. The BaseHit and the Heater Baseball feature a variable speed control so you can adjust the speed as necessary.

In high school and beyond, the ATEC line of pitching machines are more advanced and offer a wide range of pitches at high speeds. The Casey Pro Baseball Pitching Machine and the Power Hummer Baseball Pitching Machine are versatile and can deliver pitches up to 100 miles per hour!

Of course, we didn’t forget about the girls. Softball pitching machines such as the Heater Softball Pitching Machine and the Baseball/Softball Combo Pitching Machine are portable, easy to use, feature a variable speed control, and ball feeder to deliver consistent pitches.

Whether you are seeking to improve your own batting skills, or you are helping your little leaguer develop a love for the American game, pitching machines can be a great tool both at home and on the field. So, choose the right machine, pick your favorite practice spot, and play ball!

The modern game of baseball is barely recognizable from its earliest official form as drawn up in the Knickerbocker Rules. Originally, players didn’t wear gloves, there were no home runs, pitches were thrown underhand, and there wasn’t even a fly out rule. Since then, the rules of baseball have changed virtually every year, evolving very slowly with developments in glove, bat, and protective technologies. But even the modern game stays true to its pastoral roots, as is evidenced by these general rules offered by Dazadi. These are by no means meant to be official of definitive, but rather are meant to give players a basic understanding of how the game is played. Read the rest of this entry »

Today it is obvious that any player of baseball needs a baseball glove to aid in fielding and to protect hands from fast flying balls, but there was a time when glove wearing was seen as unmanly. Players originally wore no gloves at all and simply had to bear the pain and swelling associated with catching pitches, pop flies, and fast grounders. Read the rest of this entry »

Since the game evolved from several poorly documented sources over the course of hundreds of years, very little is known about the origin of baseball. Baseball’s ancestors are believed to be English folk games such as stoolball, Tip-cat, cat and dog, and cricket, though the earliest know reference to game itself is a 1791 bylaw which forbade “base ball” within 80 yards of a meeting house in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Read the rest of this entry »

Questions to ask yourself before purchasing a glove

First, a little primer…

A baseball glove’s main components are the pocket, the webbing, and the back. The pocket is the “palm” area of the glove, just below the fingers. The back of the glove is on the reverse side of the palm, and is either “open” or “closed.” The webbing is the part that connects the thumb of the glove to the fingers, and comes in a very wide variety of styles, including the single post, the one piece, the solid two piece, the basket web, the I-web, the H-web, and the Trap-eze. Read the rest of this entry »