Joe Lewis - President of Mojo Sports and
                                          Inventor of the World's First Pitching Cage

It all started in the year 2000 after Joe Lewis had been released from professional baseball.  Joe had been around the world playing baseball.  He played in just about every Independent league in the U.S. and also played in Canada, Italy and Holland.  Joe will tell you himself that he wasn't the fastest, didn't hit very well and didn't have that great of an arm, but through hard work, determination and hustle he was able to keep the dream of playing baseball alive for 6 years.   Joe played shortstop and loved the position, but after he was released he still wanted to keep playing.  Joe was fortunate enough to land a job with ESPN in Bristol, CT, but still found himself with that urge of wanting to be on the field.        Joe started training and thought pitching would be the easiest way to go because he did not have a team to train with.  Every day after work he would go and pitch to a concrete wall with a square strike zone painted on it.  After a while, he got bored with it and didn't think it was really improving his skill.  He thought if he wanted to get really good at pitching, he needed to replicate the situation he would perform in.  He went to the local high school baseball field and started training on the field from the pitcher's mound.  He needed a target to throw to, so he used a chair behind home plate, then he switched to a trash can.  All of these targets got boring and it didn't feel the same as when he would pitch in a game.  He needed a catcher, so he had his girlfriend strap on the catcher's gear and try to catch.  It didn't work out too well, but you have to give her credit for trying.       Finally, one night he woke up at 3a.m. in the morning with the thought of using a mannequin catcher and a mannequin batter that he could control from the pitcher's mound and he could practice anytime he wanted in a realistic environment.  He did some research to see if something like that existed so he could just buy it and begin training.  He couldn't find anything suitable for what he wanted, so he did some research on patents to see if anything like that existed and found nothing.  He attempted building it in his apartment, but found he needed more room and tools for this project.  He was able to find a retired mechanical engineer that he could afford to pay on a part time basis.  He put his idea on paper and began the process of producing what he envisioned that night he woke at 3a.m.      From that beginning, he worked on the idea during his spare time and moved to California and worked for HGTV for 2 years.  In that time, he was able to get a prototype built and his grandmother provided the initial start up money for the company.  His brother Tim Lewis came on board and helped for one year building the initial machines.