Article: Dispute between two baseball training equipment firms draws in Iowa college.

Byline: Jeff Reinitz

Sep. 30--CEDAR RAPIDS --- The University of Northern Iowa has been drafted into a court battle between two competing baseball training equipment companies.

UNI purchased a high-tech Allstar Pro 5000 batting cage system from a Georgia company called Joyner Technologies for the Panther's baseball team late last year.

Now a Connecticut business is crying foul.

ProBatter Sports, says the simulator, which fuses a pitching machine with the synchronized computer image of a ball player winding up, is an unlicensed copy of its ProBatter Simulator used by the Boston Red Sox and other Major League teams.

ProBatter Sports filed a civil suit ...

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