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Clicking here will take you to our main Oates Specialties LLC website to complete your order!Retrieving baseballs during practice is as necessary as hitting, throwing, and catching. However, retrieving baseballs off of the ground is of no value to player development and results in unnecessary bending at the back and time away from beneficial practice. Mike Compton, former minor league catching coordinator for the Philadelphia Phillies, has developed a ball retrieving tool designed to speed up the baseball retrieval process thereby allowing more time devoted to player development.
"I wish I would have had the Ball Hawg™ when I was playing! It would have saved me a lot of long days of shagging batting practice and saved my back along the way. It's a pitcher's best friend. I use it every day."
Steve Schrenk
Pitching Coach, Philadelphia Phillies.
"As a baseball nerd who has been involved in professional baseball for over 20 years I simply am not a fan of gimmicks. That being said, The Ball Hawg™ is a piece of equipment that should have been thought of a long time ago and will be used by myself and other baseball people religiously for a long time."
Rod Nichols
Former Minor and Major Leaguer Player.
AAA pitching coach with the Cubs.
"Wanted to drop you a line and say what a huge help the Ball Hawg™ has been in the batting cages and out on the field. The pitchers fight over it because it saves their back and legs (keeps them from complaining). I have found that we can get more work done and have more energy because the Ball Hawg™ helps get the balls back in the bucket so quickly and we can have more time working on the fundamentals of the players swing. It sure makes things go faster and more smoothly. Life is just sweeter for my players and myself. What a great tool."
Jim Morrison
Tampa Bay Rays Minor League manager and 12 year Major League veteran
"Having been a player, hitting instructor, and head coach for the past twenty-five years, I have found a tremendous benefit from using the Ball Hawg™.
The Ball Hawg™ saves me and my students valuable time and puts less stress on my body. Teaching 200 lessons per month for the past fifteen years, I routinely picked up, by hand, approximately 300 balls per lesson. The Ball Hawg™ has saved my lower back and I'm not as tired at the end of the day."
Dave Kent
Former pro player for the Yankees, Pirates, and Cardinals
"The Ball Hawg™ saves time. It keeps catching and fielding drills going and is an unbelievable back saver while picking up balls on the field or in the batting cages. Anyone involved in coaching, teaching, or playing the game of baseball should get a Ball Hawg™. I would like to thank Mike Compton for this great invention...I LOVE IT!"
Greg Legg
Manager of Reading Fightin Phils
"Our customers use them every day and receive compliments all the time from the kids and adults. Using the tubes (the Ball Hawg™) have not only made everyone's backs feel better but also speed up the "pick up" process thus giving more time for training."
Mike LaValliere and Don Robinson
IMG Academies
"I saw the Ball Hawg™ for the 1st time in Spring Training but was apprehensive to try it. I figured that I could pick up as many balls in the cage as the players using the Ball Hawg™. It took me about 2 days to realize that they were picking up more balls with the Ball Hawg™ than I was by hand. I tried it myself and was instantly hooked. It is lightweight and easy to use. It picked up balls off grass, dirt, and astro turf very easily. Whether you have to pick up 25 balls or 250 balls, the Ball Hawg™ will help you pick up those baseballs in a hurry and let you get back to what players love to do; and that is hit.”
Kevin Jordan
Hitting Coach
