S.A. inventor trying to make it in the big leagues

The San Antonio-based inventor of a training device for pitchers has managed to get his creation in the door of Major League Baseball.

  The green pad also has been the ex-college pitcher’s main link to the baseball world.  

  A pitcher from 1997-2001 for the Shriner College (now University) Mountaineers, Bishop had to give up hardball because of a bad shoulder.

  Staring down the road from his truck, Bishop would daydream of his childhood in Winters, Texas, and of the way he would experiment throwing a baseball at the tire that hung on the fence.

  Bishop’s first sale was January 2006 at the Texas High School Baseball Coaches Association Convention, but his first full-scale marketing effort came last winter when he made it to the National Fastpitch Coaches Association convention in Marco Island, Fla.

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