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20-Days of Giveaways

February 21, 2025

As we approach our 1-Year Anniversary, I wanted to do something special for our members. In November 2024, I started reaching out to companies in the Baseball & Softball industry to see if they’d be interested in participating in a Giveaway. I’m still in awe of how the community chose to support our Giveaway. What started as a single giveaway, turned into a massive outpouring of support from these companies. We’ve received $4,000 in amazing products to giveaway. We suddenly had enough items to support a 20-Day Giveaway! So beginning on April 1st, we’re giving away daily prizes. We’ll be announcing the Winners on Instagram & Facebook Live starting on April 1st, with the Grand Prizes will be drawn on April 20th (our 1-Year Anniversary)!

 

Here’s the list of items from these amazing companies & people! Please show them your support by following them on Social Media and visiting their Websites!

JAW Bats: Custom, Color Changing Fungo Bat (Coach)

Baseball Monkey: Pick ANY Bat (Player)

Yard Kicks: 6 sets of their screw in Cleats for any shoe (Players)

Pitchers Only: Shove Day Bag (Player)

Rope Bat: Rope Bat and a dozen practice balls (Coach)

Aero-Swing: 2 Aero Bats and practice balls (Coaches)

Nexus Mount: Solo Mount (Parent)

Savannah Bananas: Swag Bag (Parent)

Kinetic Arm: Youth Kinetic Arm (Player)

Great Ape Grips: 2 Grip Trainers (Coaches)

Phenom Elite: 12 Pairs of Batting Gloves (Players)

Salt Athletic: 2 Medium Deodorizing Bags (Players)

Noggin Boss: 1 Custom Noggin Boss (Players)

Ball Players Balm: 4 Bat Tacks & 3 Glove Conditioners (Players)

Seed Sack: 3 Custom Seed Sacks (Players)

9Strap: 1 9Strap hitting aid (Player)

Stinger Sports: Solaro Sunglasses (Player)

Swing Rail: 2 Swing Rail Trainers (Players)

ThumbPRO: 2 ThumbPros (Players)

Chinook Seedery: A TON of their Sunflower Seeds (Players)

Dirty South Bats: -6 USSSA Bat & a 1 Hand Trainer (Player & Coach)

6-Weeks In

June 5, 2024

Well folks, 6-weeks after we launched the PickupPortal.com, we’ve hit a major milestone. More than 1,000 Players have registered for our service! We’ve received several comments and suggestions about how to improve the website and we’re logging each one. When we launch our next revision of the site, we will incorporate as many as possible. We want the site to be as user friendly and intuitive as possible.

Not only have the registrations grown at an incredible rate, but we’re being invited to participate as a vendor at some Tournament locations. Grand Slam Sports has invited us to setup at their 20th Anniversary World Series in Panama City Beach, FL! We gladly accepted and will be attending their 1st week – June 17th – 22nd. We’re not only setting up a Tent and Table, but we’re bringing some fun too!

We’re bringing our 12′ wide, 10′ tall, 24′ long Batting Cage and our Pocket Radar Smart Coach. We will be having an Exit Velo competition for each Age Group: 8U – 14U. The highest Exit Velo (off a Tee) wins a special prize at the end of the week! To enter the competition, just Register for the Free 2-week Trial on our website!

We’re also having a really nice Giveaway for 1 Lucky Winner! A very nice Arctic Cooler, Ryobi Fan, heavy-duty Ballpark Wagon, 2 Chairs and more! All you have to do to sign up for our Premium Subscription on the website and use the Promo Code we will release at the Tournament. We’ll do the drawing on Thursday, June 20th and the Winner can pick up their Prizes on Friday, June 21st!

Map of Players Team and Player count

Amazing participation

May 2, 2024

2-weeks after we Soft launched, more than 70 Teams and nearly 500 Players (Parents) have signed up. We knew we weren’t alone in our frustration with how ineffective the old method of Picking Up was. We know we aren’t the 1st people to have this idea. Perhaps we aren’t even the 1st people to act on that idea and build a site (or App) like this. What makes us different is our passion for youth sports and helping Parents support their Athletes desire to play more. Other’s who’ve tried this approach before were likely focused on their Player or their Team and not the overall community. Our own son is nearly aged out of Travelball (he’s playing 16U this summer). So we’re building this service to support other Parents who are earlier in their journey. So they don’t have some of the same frustrations that we had. We hope that you will continue to support this website and share it with your circle of influence.