Patent ID: 7892116

Claim:
A baseball training aid comprising: an audio or visual pitch indicator for simulating that a baseball pitch has been thrown; a microphone for detecting the “crack” sound of a bat impacting a ball; an audio or visual feedback indicator for indicating whether a person's bat impact was timely, premature or late; a processor connected to said audio or visual indicators and said microphone, said processor triggering the activation of said audio or visual pitch indicator for simulating that a baseball pitch has been thrown, said processor including an audio filter for filtering out sounds not of the “crack” sound of a bat impacting a ball, said processor further including a timer for determining the time span between the audio or visual pitch indicator simulating that a pitch has been thrown and the “crack” sound of a bat impacting a ball detected by said microphone, said processor storing one or more predetermined time values reflecting the optimal time for the time span between the audio or visual pitch indicator simulating that a pitch has been thrown and the “crack” sound of a bat impacting a ball, said processor causing said audio or visual feedback indicator to indicate whether the person's bat swing was timely, premature or late based upon a comparison of the time span determined by the processor to the one or more predetermined values; and a housing with said audio or visual pitch indicator, said microphone, said audio or visual feedback indicator, and said processor located within said housing.