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7435193 Retrieval device for tethered articles  
The retrieval device for tethered articles is a portable, compact device well suited for use by solo players practicing various aspects of sports. For example, the device may be used by a football...
7048653 Ball retrieval device for ball games, particularly for tennis rackets  
A ball retrieval device, particularly for integration in a tennis racket, includes a rotatable spool with a longitudinally displaceable carriage arranged thereon. Through rotation of the spool, a...
6918842 Dual purpose child's baseball glove  
An elastic cord connects a tethered ball which is lightweight and of rubber to a tab on a child's fielding glove so when thrown it bounces back, wherein the connection to the tab is a slip knot...
6884187 Training device for throwing a ball  
A throwing exercise apparatus using a sphere with an internal polar passageway to deliver end portions a non-elastic band of which one end portion circumscribes the outer surface of the sphere and...
6837808 Sport training device  
A sport training device for eye-hand coordination and reflexes having a target tethered to a handle is disclosed. Variations in the handle as well as the target create changes in the pathway of the...
6786841 Hand-held ball hitting training device  
A hand-held ball hitting training device includes a resilient semi-flexible rod bendable upon impact by a bat, a handle component attached on one opposite end of the rod, a ball simulation...
6547248 Combination of bouncing ball and racket  
A ball game set includes racket having a head and a handle. A first passage and a second passage respectively and co-axially defined through the handle and the head. The second passage is smaller...
6435989 Batting training device  
A ball-like target, representative of a ball to be used in actually playing a sport to be taught, for use in teaching batting and catching to new players. The ball-like target is attached to an...
6227988 Batting practice training device  
A batting practice training device includes a handle which contains a bearing attached to the proximal end of a rope. The distal end of the rope is attached to a ball. A retaining strap is attached...
6168539 Soccer ball spin training tether  
An apparatus for soccer kicking practice comprises a means of attaching a tether comprising a cord and elastic strip to a soccer ball in a manner allowing the ball to freely rotate with respect to...
6142889 Batting practice apparatus  
A tethered ball-type batting practice apparatus comprised of a nonresilient first tether portion, a swivel, a linearly resilient second tether portion, a ball and a moderately flexible sleeve is...
6093118 Spinning baseball device  
When spun by an electric drill, this device allows a batter to practice reading the spin on a pitched baseball. The device creates this spin, without a baseball being pitched. The device is...
6062993 Detachable tennis volley practice device  
A tennis teaching aid for use in instructing tennis players in multiple areas of the game, those areas being: (1) teaching a player how to volley(hit balls in the air close to the net) more...
6042491 Ball propelling and batting apparatus  
A ball propelling and batting apparatus includes a pair of lines, a pair of handles, a ball, a bat with a hitting portion having a flat longitudinal surface, an attachment member and stoppers. The...
6033323 Batting training device  
A batting training device defined by a spherical member 15 having a through-opening 20 concentric with a central axis 22 and two elongated tether members 25 that pass through the through-opening...
6012993 Athletic training harness  
A waist belt has opposite free ends which can be buckled together. A pair of fabric loops are disposed at the free ends and define holes for attachment to a tether. A pair of adjustable thigh...
5976041 Elastic returnable practice ball  
A ball practice apparatus for use with a solid core ball is provided having an elastic adapted to be secured about a user's body part where an elastic cord attached to the elastic band and a plug...
5755631 Volleyball practice device and method of use thereof  
A device to be used in practicing to play volleyball includes a ball rotatably mounted on the end of a long, somewhat flexible wand. The other end of the wand is held by a coach. The coach...
5709619 Batting practice device  
A centrally-bored, elongate body slidably receives rope therethrough, and a rope end tethers a ball thereat. At a handle end of the body, a clothesline tightener or foreshortener is used to clasp...
5615879 Batting practice aid and method of using same  
The batting practice aid includes a single handle, which is sized to be grasped by a single hand of a user, is connected to one end of an impact absorbing line having a soft rubber ball connected...
5597159 Batting practice device  
A batting practice device which has a partially hollowed-out practice ball suspended by a knotted rope, or a line having a flared-out end, from a handle. The batting practice device is used to...
5588647 Method of playing a football game  
There is disclosed a football having an end appendage comprising at least one long, narrow strip of a flexible sheet material, e.g., cloth or flexible plastic, which functions as a tail when the...
5586760 Soccer training belt for use with a cord suspended soccer ball  
A soccer training apparatus is provided. The apparatus has a mesh soccer net sized and configured for encapsulating a soccer ball and loosely holding the soccer ball within the mesh soccer net...
5582403 Baseball training and exercise apparatus  
A baseball training and exercise device includes a base, a first columnar support and a second columnar support telescopically positioned within the first support. The exercise device also includes...
5492321 Batting practice device  
A practice device for enabling a batter to practice his batting skills as well as eye and hand coordination, comprising a relatively stiff, elongate tubular member with a handle located on one end,...
5458327 Swing stick  
The invention is a swing stick, comprising a dowel, a baseball, and a length of rope. The dowel has proximal and distal ends, and a dowel length which is the distance between the proximal and...
5452888 Practice tethered baseball  
A practice baseball and softball simulates fly balls to teach youngsters to catch fly balls. The ball has an elongated rope and a throughbore into which is placed a plastic sleeve with one end of...
5443576 Soccer training belt for use wtih a cord suspended soccer ball  
A soccer training apparatus is provided. The apparatus has a mesh soccer net sized for encapsulating a soccer ball. A cord having a first end and a securing portion is provided. The first end of...
5433435 Batter timing practice apparatus  
A batter timing practice apparatus including a telescoping handle having a tethered ball attached. In use, the ball is set in motion by an operator and directed toward a practicing batter, the...
5238241 Batting practice device  
A ball batting practice device wherein a practice ball is swung in an orbit at the end of a tether, having a elastic shock-absorbing link and a non-elastic link having a length greater than the...
5165682 Reflex skill practice device and method  
The present inventions relate to a method of practicing reflex skills in catching a ball rebounding from the ground wherein the method includes the use of a ball attached to one end of a resilient...
5080376 Tether ball  
The tether cord is secured to the ball by a stud having an enlarged head engaging the external surface of the ball, and a shank passing through an opening in the ball and formed with a shoulder...
4846472 Baseball batting trainer  
A baseball batting aid or trainer comprises a hand-held rigid handle having an elongated extension with an outer base portion at its free end, and a flexible, preferably extensible member...
4753442 Baseball glove with automatic ball return device  
An automatic ball return device for use with a baseball glove to be worn by a person, includes a housing mounted on the rear portion of the baseball glove; a spool rotatably mounted in the housing;...
4687209 Soccer training ball assembly  
A captive soccer ball is attached to the waist of a player by means of a multi-component tether. The tether has a first elastic member threaded through a reinforced channel through the surface of...
4577864 Batting aid  
A tethered ball rotationally mounted such that upon rotation of a handle mounted wand from which the tethered ball dangles, centrifugal motion raises the ball to a position of delivery to a batter...
4415155 Batting practice apparatus  
This invention relates to a batting practice apparatus which includes an elongated axial rod which is particularly adapted to be gripped by an operator. An axle is fixed to one end of the rod. The...
4333658 Sporting implement structure, particularly for soccer game practicing  
A sporting implement structure particularly for soccer game practicing, comprises a helmet-like element suitable for association with the user's head and having a pair of eyelets located at the...
4247117 Torso tethered training device  
A torso mounted harness supports a vertically adjustably located anchor for an elastic cord attached to a ball encapsulating harness whereby the return trajectory of the encapsulated ball is...
4145046 Soccer training apparatus  
A soccer training apparatus utilizes a hollow handle portion having a shaft upon which one end of a flexible line may be wound. The shaft, contained within the handle, is biased by a helical spring...
4071241 Large foot balls or soccer balls  
A soccer training device comprises a soccer ball having a harpoon fitting piercing the ball and thus securing a swivel to the outside of the ball, a cord attached at one end to the swivel with the...
4042241 Elastic cord-attached returning soccer ball  
A tethered inflated athletic ball resembling a ball used in the playing of soccer, with an elastic cord secured at one end thereto and provided at its other end with at least one flexible loop...
4032145 Action batter up game apparatus  
An action batter up game apparatus consisting of a baseball affixed at one end of a lengthy nylon cord having a flexible handle affixed to the opposite end, and with there being an elongated hollow...
3940133 Ball retrieving apparatus  
A ball retrieving apparatus used by a player for independently practicing the art of tossing a ball. The ball retrieving apparatus comprises a lightweight ball pivotally and detachably...
3934873 Baseball batting aid  
A baseball batting aid for use in increasing the proficiency of a batter to hit different types of pitched balls. The aid includes a conventional cork center baseball having a diametrically...
3907287 Tethered ball batting practice device  
An athletic improvement device providing activity for a pair of players: one batter and one pitcher. The ball is "pitched" to the batter by the pitcher rotating the device around his head. A...
3843126 TETHERED BALL AND RESILIENT COVERING FOR BOTH RIGHT AND LEFT HANDS  
An exercise and recreational apparatus in the form of a ball and partial glove combination wherein the ball connected by an elastic band to the palm of the glove when thrown may be caught when it...
3731927 GLOVE AND BALL TETHERED THERETO  
A novelty sports toy for diversion and enjoyment to youngsters and others, the device consisting of a base ball glove to which there is tethered one end of a stretchable elastic rubber, the...
3531115 BATTING PRACTICE DEVICE  
3214166 Ball game device  
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