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Supporting community baseball... indoors.

Indoor Batting Cages

Dutchess County NY | Poughkeepsie, NY

Only about 60 miles up the Hudson River from New York City, Dutchess County offers easy access to Major League Baseball at its best. Yankees? Mets? Fans of each are plentiful, as are fans of the nearby Hudson Valley Renegades of the New York-Penn League.

What wasn’t plentiful was opportunity for community youth baseball. Kids and parents were choosing high-powered travel teams rather than the community teams. “It wasn’t how I remembered it as a kid,” says Al Hammell, a local coach, teacher and former New York Mets farm hand.

Enter the easy up / easy down Phantom.

Beacon Athletics Indoor Batting Cage Dutchess County NY “Their extra winter programs were a big draw.” Hammell recognized a major difference between the more expensive travel teams and their community counterparts was the indoor winter programs. He decided to take action.

If the Dutchess County community program could offer an indoor option that was an affordable winter alternative for league directors, they could compete. He called the idea “The Dutchess Ace Baseball Initiative.” Hammell contacted Beacon and learned about their Phantom Indoor Batting Cage systems and the project gained momentum.

“The initiative would have never gotten off the ground without Beacon’s Phantom,” Al said. “At the Community College gym, I needed it to be easy to put up and easy to take down. The Phantom delivers on that and makes this whole program possible.”

And with that, community baseball in Poughkeepsie had new life and a thriving winter indoor program.

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