With the recent release of our new head pads for caps, GelDefender has decided to take a tour of America and check out its favorite pastime region-by-region. First stop: California.
With five Major League teams (more than any other state) and 12 Minor League teams (a number second only to Florida’s 14), California is steeped in the baseball culture. It takes a devoted state to host the Los Angeles Angels, the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Oakland Athletics, the San Diego Padres, and the San Francisco Giants in its borders, not to mention all the college and high school teams it harbors.
Take, for instance, St. Francis High School of Mountain View, who came sixth in this year’s USA Today high school baseball rankings. The Lancers just earned themselves the 2012-13 Central Coast Section Division I title for the first time since 2001. They blew through the tournament playoffs with wins of 2-0, 3-0, and 8-3 before finishing their season with a 10-0 championship win against rival Serra-San Mateo. St. Francis’s junior left-handed pitcher John Gavin threw a one-hitter and eight strikeouts. The team finished with a 30-4 overall record, a great season with another one expected next year.
Baseball is and always will be a staple of the American culture, so we want to keep players from little league all the way to the majors outfitted with GelDefender head pads to extra padding, comfort and cooling while playing the sport that they and the rest of America love.
*Scientists have no conclusive evidence as to whether or how the reduction of g forces during impacts reduces the number or degree of concussions and head injuries. GelDefenderTM products provide supplemental padding as well as cooling and comfort benefits when used with helmets and caps. Participants in activities in which head impacts can occur should always use tested and approved helmets for protection. However, no helmet or supplemental padding can protect the user from all serious head or neck injuries that can result from impacts.
