Best Pitching Machines for All Leagues

The Junior Hack Attack baseball pitching machine is a clever solution not only in terms of its capabilities but also in terms of its construction. With this machine, you will not be limited in options as to where to go practice playing baseball. Once you remove two supports, the whole machine will fold almost flat and you will be able to carry it with your hands or wheel anywhere you need. When fully disassembled, the Junior Hack Attack baseball machine doesn't take up much space and may fit even in a small trunk of the Mini Cooper. So if you seek mobility and portability, you will hardly find a better machine. Backed up with a 5-year warranty, it guarantees durability and long-term use.

Every batter knows if you have a good baseball bat, half the battle is won. Make sure yours isn't worn out and fit for the game. If it isn't, look through these five best bats and upgrade your old one.

Lightweight and flexible design of the JUGS Lite-Flite Machine allows its setup almost anywhere. It can be powered in three different ways - with batteries, Portable Generator-2000, and an outlet (110V), and this means, you're totally free to choose where to play baseball, outdoors or indoors. The slight drawback of this pitch machine is that it can hold only one ball at a time and that it doesn't have an in-line switch function. However, since all these additional things can be purchased separately, we don't consider it as a deal-breaker.

Contrary to a common belief that baseball was created by one man, it has actually emerged in a result of fusing several games that used bats and balls. The chronicles tell us that the first baseball championship took place back in 1930, but the name of the winner, unfortunately, is unknown. What's hard to believe, though, is that the game that we all know now as one of the Olympic sports used to be not so popular years ago.

The Lousville Slugger UPM 45 is an affordable yet durable and reliable pitching machine. Made of solid metal and fitted with a rigid spring, it will serve you years. Despite the metal design, the weight of the Lousville Slugger UPM 45 is surprisingly small, making 25 lbs only, which means moving it outside whenever the weather's fine isn't going to be a problem.

In the later years of the Second World War, the Office of Strategic Services developed a grenade that was meant to look and be thrown as a traditional baseball. Designers believed that by developing grenades of a spheric shape they helped American soldiers who were accustomed to playing baseball from the childhood throw them more accurately.

It's not only the lightweight construction that stands the Wheeler Dealer as one of the best pitching machines on the market; customers love it for its hassle-free assembly/disassembly, too. Hence, if you've been looking for a piece of equipment that you could transport here and there, look no further, as you won't find a better offer than this Athlonic pitching machine. Aside from the convenience of transportation, the Wheeler Dealer offers ease of use. At the bottom of the machine, there is one "On/Off" button and two knobs for adjusting the height and the speed of pitches, which makes it an appropriate machine both for novice baseball players and for experienced hitters. As we've said, the Wheeler Dealer is a rechargeable machine and so it comes with a battery charger. Both the charger and the machine itself are covered with a manufacturer's 5-year warranty.

Believe it or not, in the years of World War II American troops often relied on their knowledge of baseball to be able to tell whether they were talking to a genuine American soldier or a German spy in a uniform of the USA army. 

The maintenance of the Jugs Small-Ball machine is as simple as anything. Despite being made of steel and high-impact plastic, the machine's transportation is a breeze, as its actual weight is slightly bigger than 23 lbs. And thanks to the option to alternate power sources - the grid and a generator (1000-watt Yamaha EF1000iS) - it's now become possible to play baseball anywhere players wish. The Jugs Small-Ball machine allows for adjusting the pitching height and the direction in which it will throw baseballs. The only drawback that we could find about this machine is that it doesn't rotate full 360 degrees. However, if you don't think you (or your kids or team) will need that much, you will surely not regret buying this pitch machine.

Jim Abbott who was born with one hand has built himself an 11-year baseball career as a pitcher in MLB.