Pitching Machine

A Pitching Machine ( in German sometimes baseball throwing machine ) is a training tool in baseball sport, which automatically " throw " a ball to a batter. To simulate a pitcher as realistic as possible, the balls are shot at different speeds and styles. There are both devices, where each ball is inserted individually by hand (manual feed), as well as those where the next ball is automatically transported from a kind of basket with many balls in the throwing device ( auto [ matic ] feed).

History

Inventor of the first baseball throwing machine was the British mathematician Charles Hinton, who built a powered with gunpowder Pitching Machine for the baseball team at Princeton University in 1897. Some sources claim that the machine has caused many serious injuries, and that Hinton therefore had to leave at Princeton University. In fact, Hinton joined the University of Minnesota and took his trap with his new workplace.