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in the beginning....
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old memories....
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I want to tell you about how this product came about. It was invented by my grandfather (I have always called him Poppy). Anyway, several years ago, some of my older cousins were on a softball team and one of their players got hurt. They were desperate for a player. In fact they were so desperate that they asked my grandfather to play with them – at least for this one game they told him. Now Poppy had played baseball and softball forever, at least to hear him tell the story, it has been forever. He had also been a coach for everything from Little League to a city recreation director to high school coach…boys, girls (my Mom’s team) and lots more. And well anyway, he knew how to play softball. What the cousins failed to tell him was that this was a class A league. These players were serious. When he found out the caliber of teams, he was reluctant, but he had promised to play – at least for this one game.
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As it turned out, the missing player was a shortstop. Poppy had been a shortstop in high school, but now he was not sure that this was going to be fun any more. As many of you may well know, “soft”ball does not describe the composition of the real “softball” – IT IS HARD! And in the position that he was playing, that ball went zinging around pretty darn good. Also, as many of you know very well, that when you first start playing at the beginning of the season, your hand is very tender and subject “stone bruising”. You ballplayers know about stone bruises and how the first knuckle on the catching hand can become bruised to the point of being black and blue and swollen, even on the back of the hand on that first knuckle. Well, for starting in the middle of the season with these young troops that were 20 and 30 years younger than Poppy, he was going to pay the price. Of course they all had to test “The Old Man” with some hotshot throws.
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problem solved....
As the story goes, he did very good (he said “great”, but I will leave it at “very good”). The team wanted him to play a few more games, at least until they got their shortstop back. He agreed. As he tells the story, the very first thing that he did the next day was to start looking around for a hand-pad or something that could allow him to continue to play, but without suffering on every catch of the ball. There was nothing to be found but the typical “sponge” padding. You know those things are worthless. Of the materials that he tried, they were either to soft, with no real “absorbing” capability, or they were to hard and made the ball bounce right back out of the glove. The harder material would absorb the shock, but the recoil made it impractical when the objective is to “catch” the ball. Poppy never found any product or material during that brief season that would satisfy this problem.
Now that could have been the end of this story, except that Poppy was a salesman, and one of the companies that he called on was a company that used hitech materials for gaskets for the automotive and airline industries. This material has to be able to absorb considerable shock, while at the same time minimizing the recoil (the engineering term is, “damping”). By a stroke of luck, in one of Poppy’s visits to this customer, he was handling some of their sample materials and he had a flashback to his most recent recollections of playing ball with a stone bruise. As they say ‘sometimes even a blind squirrel can stumble on to a nut’. The rest is – well you know – history. It did, in fact take considerable time and testing to find the right thickness, the right composition, the right design and all of the other phases of evolution of a product. Before getting a patent on the product, Poppy and some of his trusted associates performed a number of unscientific, but effective tests to prove the product value. One of those “unscientific” tests was to drop a golf ball from a height of 10’ to a concrete floor and to measure the height of the bounce. And then to do the same drop test with the golf ball hitting the hand pad material that was lying on the concrete. In “unscientific” terms, the material absorbed over 90% of the energy of the golf ball – THATS INCREDIBLE!
We are very proud of this product. It is a product that is practical for all ages…sizes are available for men, women and children, and they can play without the fear of “hurting my hand”. Left handed or right handed – makes no difference. It will not absorb moisture, nor will it deteriorate with time. The final word is – IT WORKS!
If you buy the product and you do not agree that it works, you send me an email message and I will see that you get a full refund. That is our warranty. Now get out there and…PLAY BALL!
signed
J.Carter Brooks
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