Iron Mike Master Pitching Machine [Token]

Master Pitching Machine

Published by Master Pitching Machine, Kansas City, MO

About this Item

The Iron Mike is a T-Arm-style pitching machine. The Iron Mike commercial pitching machine from Master Pitching Machine is a favorite machine of professional players and coaches worldwide largely in part because of its arm style pitching. This same reason brings more people to batting cages, making them a favorite of batting cage owners as well. Iron Mike commercial pitching machines are mechanically easy to set up, use, adjust, and maintain. When a problem does occur, our unmatched customer support and service personnel can diagnose and teach you how to fix it. The manufacturer also offers safety, warning, and informational signs for batting cages as well as standard Iron Mike pitching machine tokens (1-1/8" diameter). These tokens can be used with the token box that is included with each Iron Mike commercial pitching machine. Other sizes of Iron Mike pitching machine tokens are available upon request. A pitching machine is a machine that automatically pitches a baseball at different speeds and styles. Most machines are hand-fed, but there are some that automatically feed. There are multiple types of pitching machines; softball, baseball, youth, adult, and a combination of both. In 1897, mathematics instructor Charles Hinton designed a gunpowder-powered baseball pitching machine for the Princeton University baseball team's batting practice. According to a source it caused several injuries, and may have been in part responsible for Hinton's dismissal from Princeton that year. However, the machine was versatile: it was capable of throwing variable speeds with an adjustable breech size and firing curve balls by the use of two rubber-coated steel fingers at the muzzle of the pitcher. Hinton successfully introduced the machine to the University of Minnesota where he worked as an assistant professor until 1900. The arm-type pitching machine was designed by Paul Giovagnoli in 1952, for use on his driving range.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Iron Mike Master Pitching Machine [Token]
• Publisher: Master Pitching Machine, Kansas City, MO
• Binding: Token
• Condition: Good
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