Abstract: Improvements in baseball batting cages directed to providing a limited area, fully enclosed and fully automatic baseball batting cage utilizing a conventional baseball pitching machine; improvements in the floor configuration of a limited area baseball batting cage operative to gravity return all pitched balls, whether struck by the batter or not, to a ball pickup zone; an improved baseball pickup and return device cooperating with said floor construction making possible the automatic operation of the batting cage; improvements in the positioning and mounting of a pitching machine in a baseball batting cage which facilitates the batting cage being both minimum in area and fully automatic.