Patent attributes
A field view batting cage apparatus includes a support frame surrounding a foreshortened baseball playing field with baseball hitting and pitching positions in diagonally opposite corners of the field, and a netting suspended so as to form a plurality of vertical walls of netting and a ceiling of netting surrounding and overlying the field for providing containment of the baseball. The batting cage apparatus also includes either a plurality of cables strung on the support frame so as to suspend the netting to form the vertical walls of netting and a dome-shaped ceiling of netting, or a support roof attached to, and spanning diagonally between opposite corners of the support frame and at least one cable strung on the support frame so as to suspend the netting to form a dome-shaped ceiling of netting and the vertical walls of netting.