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FungoMan LLC to be featured vendor at the 1st Annual Omaha Baseball and Softball Show.
2007 College World Series is the “World’s Largest Gathering of Baseball & Softball Fans, Players, Parents and Coaches.”
SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA — June 4, 2007 — Romy Cucjen, President of FungoMan, LLC (https://fungoman.com) has announced that the company will be a featured vendor at The Omaha Baseball and Softball Show June 21st, 22nd, and 23rd (http://www.omahabaseballshow.com) taking place at the Qwest Center Omaha during the College World Series.
During the College World Series, Omaha is home to the largest gathering of baseball and softball people with over 290,000 individuals attending with 135,000 of the attendees from out of state. Omaha is also home to at least 30 youth and high school baseball and softball tournaments which attract teams, players, coaches and parents from all 50 states. These tournaments bring in an additional 25,000 Baseball and softball spectators to Omaha.
“Our goal is to display the FungoMan FM-150 in an exclusive interactive demonstration venue to show coaches, players and parents how a “a coach’s creativity and ability to introduce technology to their teaching will maximize practice time and will drive this machine’s usefulness,” Cucjen stated.
Omaha Baseball and Softball show President, Jeff Evans captured the allurement of the Show. “I want everyone that attends the Show this year to come with one simple question: ‘What’s new?’ I’m always looking for new products and new opportunities at shows, and the FungoMan FM-150 is exactly the kind of product that baseball and softball teams and players are looking for.”
Developed by coaches for coaches.
The FM-150 Automated Baseball Practice Machine offers a wide range of practice applications and are driven by Intelligent microprocessors that control the motion and speed of the throwing head, while a revolutionary ball feeding system makes sure that one of the 300 baseballs the machine can hold will be perfectly placed for firing in 2.4 seconds. Speeds of over 100 mph that send over 400 foot fly balls with 11 second hang times, to 2 mph bunts that trickle out in front of home plate can be programmed into the machine and fired every 3 seconds.
Freedom to coach, freedom to practice.
Through the use of a wireless remote control, the portable machine holds up to 300 baseballs, can be rolled easily by one person from a storage area directly to home plate, the pitching mound, or any other position on the field. After plugging the machine into a standard 110 volt outlet, a coach or player can call up pre-programmed routines using an intuitive touch screen and begin working out on the most efficient, portable, and advanced baseball practice machine seen in baseball.
An individual player can walk up to the machine, call up a routine, take the wireless remote control to his position, and control the time between balls, number of times to repeat the routine, as well as full start, pause, restart, and stop functions.
The machine also offers a full-featured pitching mode that can program and throw fastballs, curveballs, and change ups to 21 positions in and around the strike zone.
The machine also can be scaled down to throw soft toss, a drill commonly used by hitters with a coach.
Field tested by professionals for true customer orientation. See Mike Brumley at the FungoMan booth.
Former Texas Rangers Minor league coordinator Mike Brumley and the FungoMan staff will be at the booth answering questions about the machine and running practice demonstrations. “After seeing the capabilities of the machine 2 years ago, I invited the FungoMan staff and machine to the Arizona Instructional League, outside of Phoenix, Arizona. The machine was used by the Ranger’s top 52 prospects for 3 days in drills ranging from ground balls and fly balls, to Outfield situational reaction drills that helped infielders and outfielders make reads and quick decisions as to where they should align and position themselves for cutoffs and relays, Brumley states. “After putting the machine through the rigors of a professional workout, I said simply – this machine will revolutionize baseball practice.”
Cultivating a team: Enabling coaches to coach.
Youth league players can also use this machine simply by changing the field size in the machine setup mode. Brumley, stated, “There is no reason why a player or team at any level cannot benefit greatly by having a FungoMan Automated Baseball Practice Machine. The entire FungoMan organization strives for simplicity, portability, durability, and functionality. I believe they achieved their goals with this machine,” Brumley added.
When asked if coaches should fear being replaced by the FungoMan, Inc. technology, Romy Cucjen states, “Coaches will now have a tool that will help prepare their team with quality repetitions and simulated situations. Head coaches will now be able to free up their assistants to be better instructors, coaches, and recruiters.”
The driving force at FungoMan is meticulous attention to product innovation based on modern coaching needs.
FungoMan, LLC provides automated technology coaching solutions to control the motion and speed of the throwing head. A revolutionary ball-feeding system ensures consistently placed baseballs that can fire every three seconds with speeds over 100 mph.
Zero-defect manufacturing processes at FungoMan, LLC demand intensive employee training and comprehensive product testing procedures, rigorous rating standards, and an overall commitment to quality. These corporate values have built a reputation for exceptionally flexible, effective and innovative products for coaches and players as well. The company’s Automated Baseball Practice Machine is a suite of high-performance, highly reliable, interoperable software components and hardware designed for applications to aid coaches to run “game-like” practices while remaining on the field with each player.
Romy Cucjen, president of the Shreveport, LA-based company, is a former professional baseball player and high school baseball coach. He and co-inventor, former professional football player, Denny Duron, envisioned what a baseball practice machine “should do” in May of 2002.
Since May of 2004, with the start of a new prototype built with 3D engineering and modeling software from the ground up, investors have fueled the development of this technology, which will benefit multiple sports applications.
Company headquarters are in Shreveport, Louisiana.
NOTE TO EDITORS: Press interested in additional information can visit the FungoMan Web site to view sales videos of the machine or download literature at https://fungoman.com.