patent # 5,795,292 With the advent of the 3D wall, the all too routine stand up double will become the rarity, not the three bagger. "Inside the parker's" will once again grace our fields of dreams. With the elimination of the warning track and carom the fielder will no longer get caught standing idle with the ball in play as he awaits the bounce back. No more having to break off his pursuit for fear of collision and injury. Now the fielder, without hitch, can carry his momentum through and skyward, at all times connected to the play.

In the Beginning there was no wall.... Triples and "inside the parker's" were not an uncommon part of the game, and the most exciting. Homeruns, as we know them today, did not exist. With ticket sales came a barrier in the form of a vertical wall. At the time this did not have much of an effect on the game as fields were deep and the ball "dead". However, as these factors altered, this barrier began to play a significant and illicit role in our pastime. The warning track and carom did not come about by design or logic but by happenstance and exist only as anomalies. With the advent of the designated hitter and bogus grass everything in baseball has either evolved or devolved, except the nineteenth century vertical barrier. It stands as an anachronism impeding the natural flow that makes for triples and "inside the parker's". Contrary to the 3D wall which breaks no rules, the vertical barrier provides assistance to the fielding team by way of the carom acting as a tenth fielder, thus being inconsistant with the rules. Logic dictates, as it is now, the game is being played in error. The knowledge is now available to correct this existing flaw. page 1 of 5