Batting cage

A collapsible portable batting cage comprising:

• a ball having a top side, a bottom side, a front side, a rear side, a left side and a right side;
• a first length of shock cord having a top end and a bottom end, said bottom end being connected to the top side of said ball;
• a second length of shock cord having a top end and a bottom end, said top end being connected to the bottom side of said ball;
• an upright oriented rear frame assembly comprising a pair of laterally spaced upright oriented elongated side frame members each having a top end and a bottom end, a substantially horizontally oriented elongated top cross member having its opposite ends connected to the top ends of said respective side frame members, a substantially horizontally oriented elongated bottom cross member having its opposite ends connected to the bottom ends of said respective side frame members, said rear frame assembly having a front end;
• a net stretched across and filling the interior area of said rear frame assembly from its top cross member to its bottom cross member and also from one side frame to the other side frame member, said net being secured to said rear frame assembly to cushion the force of the ball hit toward the front end of said rear frame assembly;
• an upper frame assembly having a front end and a rear end, the rear end of said upper frame assembly being connected to said rear frame assembly adjacent its top end and it extends forwardly in a cantilevered orientation;
• a lower frame assembly having a front end and a rear end, the rear end of said lower frame assembly being connected to said rear frame assembly adjacent its bottom end and it extends forwardly therefrom to form a support structure for the batting cage;
• a first ring-like structure secured to the front end of said upper frame assembly through which the top end of said first length of shock cord is threaded so that an upward tension can be applied to said ball causing it to be suspended at a predetermined height in space;
• a second ring-like structure secured to the front end of said lower frame assembly through which the bottom end of said second length of shock cord is threaded so that a downward tension can be applied to said ball causing it to be suspended at a predetermined height in space;
• first attachment means for detachably securing the top end of said first length of shock cord at one of several multiple positions on the horizontally oriented elongated top cross member of said upright oriented rear frame assembly so that an upward tension can be applied to said ball causing it to be suspended at different predetermined static heights in space;
• second attachment means for detachably securing the bottom end of said second length of shock cord at one of several multiple positions on the horizontally oriented elongated bottom cross member of said upright oriented rear frame assembly so that a downward tension can be applied to said ball so that a static position may be maintained prior the ball being hit with a bat and the first and second length of shock cord will cause the ball to automatically be returned to said static position after it has been struck by a bat;
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• a right safety line and a left safety line connecting the respective right and left sides of the ball to the respective right and left upright oriented side frame members of said rear frame assembly, said safety line being oriented in a substantially horizontal plane.