The Story Behind The Creation
The story behind the invention of the Fence Tray started when our traveling baseball team purchased an iPad for scoring instead of using the traditional paper and pencil form. As a youth/varsity coach for many years I always kept book.
By using a scorebook, it was easy to put down on the bench or give to a player to hold while I gave some type of sign or signal to the players on the field, but with an expensive iPad it was a different story. By placing the iPad on the bench, the life of the pricey piece of equipment was in peril with the excitement of the game and rambunctious players.
I knew there had to be a way to keep the iPad safer, yet have easy access to it while scoring plays. After six prototypes I finally made the tray work.
In the beginning, I only made the Fence Tray for myself, but during a fall baseball season I found out that there were other coaches that had a need for it.
Since fall baseball is a little more relaxed I decided to sit on a lawn chair outside of the dugout to score. I got comfortable, attached my tray to the chain link fence and started scoring like I have done for years. It was about a half an inning into a game when a coach came up to me and said he wanted one of those, with nothing else said by him. A few innings later as I stepped away from my chair I saw some people walk up to the tray and see what that thing was attached to the safety fence. Immediately the light turned on and I knew that there were others that needed something to help score. Thus, the Fence Tray was born. A tray made for baseball coaches by baseball coaches.
After baseball came to an end, I happened to run across someone who owned none other than a chain-link fence company. Very quickly he became excited and mapped out the various uses for the product in his mind. After taking a look at the actual product, it became clear that this was a game changer. We began to give out trays to test in different markets, and as they say- the rest is history.
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