Abstract: A pitching device for training pitchers including a pitching target suspended within a retaining chamber with a collecting means located in the lower portion of the retaining chamber and a gravity return from the collecting means back to the pitchers. The retaining chamber includes a floor panel which slopes both to one side of the pitching device and forward to an outlet connected to the gravity return.

Abstract: A basketball retrieval and return device for use as a teaching device with a conventional basketball goal and conventional basketballs which randomly directs the returned basket-balls to a group of players circled about the basketball goal, the distance of the players from the goal being variable to permit the players to practice the three-point play.

Abstract: A pitching target with ball return which indicates whether a baseball pitch is either a strike or a ball and, if a strike, the location of the strike, i.e.: outside corner. The ball return includes an inclined ball collecting trough for return of the thrown ball to the pitcher for reuse. The target includes a frame which supports a series of flap panels suspended in the same plane and within the frame. The panels are arranged in three rows and three columns. The panels in the central column are wider in the horizontal dimension than the two outside panels but have the same vertical dimension as the panels on each side thereof.

Abstract: A gravity orthopedic device comprising, in combination, an elongated board providing a planar surface sized to accommodate persons within a substantial range of sizes, a support bracket for attachment to a vertical element such as a wall or door of a building, and a harness, generally in the form of a wide belt with a cushion back portion and straps for suspending a person from a spreader bar adjustably positioned relative to a top end of the board. The top end of the board also includes hooks for attachment to a cross bar, adjustably fixed relative to the bracket at varying heights to provide a range of angular relationships of the board to a support surface such as a building floor.