Patent ID: 6878078

Claim:
A baseball pitching target for producing a sound of a baseball hitting a catcher's mitt and for providing an instant feedback visual indication of where the ball impacts the target, the baseball pitching target comprising: a target fabricated of resilient leather so that a pitched ball striking the target makes a sound of a ball striking a leather catcher's mitt, the target having at least a portion of the target defining a baseball strike zone, the target indents to form a first visible indentation at a point of impact of a first pitched ball striking the target and the target being capable of having the first visible indentation being leveled out in response to a second pitched ball striking the target at a second point of impact forming a second visible indentation of the target; and a means for maintaining the target in an upright positions; a padded layer behind the target: a backing layer attached to the target sandwiching the padding between the target and the backing layer, the target and the backing layer being interconnected around a matching perimeter to form an air space therebetween so that the second pitched ball striking the target causes air movement within the air space to contribute to the first visible indentation being leveled out.