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Take Home a Piece of On Deck — FREE Community Event

  • On Deck Batting Cages 2499 East Willow Street Signal Hill, CA, 90755 United States (map)

On Deck started as a backyard batting cage. The neighborhood kids would show up at all hours to hit, and the Rogers family backyard became the place where players came to get better. Without that backyard cage, there is no On Deck.

Nearly two decades ago, we—along with some wonderful friends—put down all the turf and hung all the netting ourselves by hand. Every lane, every seam, every zip tie.

Now, as a parting gift to the community that has given us so much over these 18 years, we want to help at least 12 of you build your own backyard batting cage!

At our Take Home a Piece of On Deck event, you can take home FREE batting cage netting and turf from the original facility. We want the same experience for your family that started everything for ours.

We will have professional contractors on-site to safely take down the netting and cut turf sections for you. All you need to bring is a strong crew and a vehicle to haul it home.

A few things to know:

  • For turf—it is very heavy. You will need to bring a pallet jack and a crew of people to load it into your vehicle.

  • For netting—still bring help to carry and load it. It’s quite unwieldy without the help of 2-4 people.

  • Food, music, and good vibes will be there to send things off right. 🌮🎶

✳️ We want as many families as possible to walk away with their own batting cage setup, so we're limiting it to one netting lane and one lane's worth of turf per family or group. If there are any leftover materials at 5:00 PM—whether it’s netting, turf, fencing, or other baseball and softball equipment—we'll open it up for anyone to take multiples of what's left.

This is the last event at the Signal Hill facility. We've spent 18 years here. Some of you have been with us since the beginning. Some of you discovered us last year. Either way, you're part of this story, and we want to see you one more time before we start the next chapter in Huntington Beach.

Come grab a piece of On Deck. Build something in your backyard. Let your kids hit until the streetlights come on…then install some lighting so they keep going till bed time. 😉

That's how all of this started.

With love and gratitude,

Mike, Rose, and Michael Rogers