How Better Base Technology Can Reduce Risk on the Field
Youth baseball has spent generations trying to coach its way out of injuries. Teach better sliding technique. Remind players to stay alert. Post the rules. Repeat the warnings. Coaching matters, and no one should stop doing it. But safety professionals in every industry learned the same lesson long ago: the most reliable way to reduce […]
Understanding the Safety Benefits of Breakaway Base Systems
Ask a parent what the most dangerous object on a baseball field is and you will hear the usual suspects: the ball, the bat, maybe a fence. Almost nobody says the bases. Yet decades of sports injury research keep arriving at the same finding. The humble base, bolted rigidly to its anchor, is where a […]
How Leagues Can Improve Field Safety With Foundation Support
Every youth league board meeting has the same unwritten agenda item. It sits underneath the schedule disputes and the concession stand budget, and it only gets spoken out loud after something goes wrong: the fields need work. Board members know it. Coaches know it. Most leagues are run by volunteers doing their best with dues, […]
Where Does Your Donation to Seventh Base Foundation Go?
“Where does the money actually go?” is the right question to ask any nonprofit, and most answers to it are disappointing. You get a pie chart, a percentage, and a phrase like “program services” that could mean almost anything. We can give you a better answer than that, because we fund one thing. The short […]
How Do Breakaway Bases Stay Secure During Normal Play
Almost every league that hears about breakaway bases for the first time asks the same question, usually within the first minute: “So the base just comes off? Won’t that be a mess?” It’s a fair question, and it deserves a real answer rather than reassurance. If a base could be knocked loose by a runner […]
Why Injury Awareness Matters Before Players Step Onto the Field
Youth sports safety usually gets talked about in the past tense. A player goes down. There’s a quiet drive to urgent care. A parent group chat lights up. Somebody says the field has needed work for years. And then the season moves on, because there’s a game on Thursday and someone has to bring the […]
How to Get Started as a Seventh Base Foundation Volunteer
Most volunteer pages are vague on purpose. They say “get involved” and hope you’ll figure out the rest. This one isn’t going to do that. Here’s exactly what volunteering with the Seventh Base Foundation involves, what each role actually asks of you, and how to sign up. Why we need volunteers specifically Our biggest obstacle […]
What Services Does Seventh Base Foundation Provide to Leagues
If you run a youth baseball or softball program, you get approached by a lot of organizations. Most want something from you — registration data, sponsorship placement, a share of your concession revenue, an endorsement. This article is about what we provide to you, and it’s fairly specific. Four things. 1. Funding for breakaway bases […]
Seventh Base Foundation’s Approach to Reducing Baseball Injuries
There are many ways to try to make a sport safer. You can write curriculum. You can run clinics. You can lobby for rule changes. You can campaign for awareness. You can research. We do one thing: we put better bases on youth fields. That narrowness is not a limitation we’re apologizing for. It’s the […]
Where Does Your Donation to Seventh Base Foundation Go?
“Where does the money actually go?” is the right question to ask any nonprofit, and most answers to it are disappointing. You get a pie chart, a percentage, and a phrase like “program services” that could mean almost anything. We can give you a better answer than that, because we fund one thing. The short […]