Patent ID: 8104459

Claim:
A sling, comprising: a) an upper retention structure assembly and a lower retention structure assembly: i. an upper retention structure assembly comprising a web handle, finger loop at the top of the web handle, a guide assembly attached to the web handle, a guide hole contained within the guide assembly, and a web handle connection loop made from the lower section of the web handle; ii. a lower retention structure assembly comprising a looped retention cord connected to the upper retention structure assembly through the web handle connection loop and connected to a basket assembly by insertion through a connection loop formed by a base webbing member of the basket assembly; b) a basket assembly comprising three parts: i. first and second parts comprising two side basket components attached together to create sides of a basket assembly and to create upper and lower side portions shaped in a V or U shape; the resulting basket sides having a retention side and a release side; and the resulting basket sides having means to accept a ball; ii. a third part comprising a base webbing member of the basket assembly, the base webbing member forming a bottom section of the basket assembly and forming a connection loop on the retention side of the basket assembly, used to accept the looped retention cord, and creating a connection point on the release side of the basket to accept a release cord; c) a release cord comprising: i. an upper end attached to a release tab by use of a void within the release tab, the upper end of the release cord running through a void contained within the guide assembly; and ii. a lower end attached to the release side of the basket assembly through a connection point formed by the base webbing member of the basket assembly.