Why Your Facility Needs Baseball Fence Caps

Your baseball field needs to be attractive, but also safe for baseball players, visitors and spectators. A protective baseball fence cap can effectively cover the sharp, exposed top edges of chain link fences which pose a serious safety hazard to outfielders. If your facility does not already have a fence cap installed, now is the time to reconsider.

How Baseball Fence Caps Help

Chain link fences guard your field and help establish field boundaries. They can also reduce your field’s liability risk, since unauthorized parties will not be as inclined to enter a chained off property. However, those fences can also pose their own unique risk, which is why facilities should have caps installed. Some reasons that more facilities today are using baseball fence caps include:

• Reduce Risks – The most important reason for using fence caps is safety. When an outfielder runs and jumps backward to catch a fly ball, they could land on sharp edges of a chain link fence. With a fence cap, you soften those edges and protect outfielders, reducing your facility’s risk for causing injury.

• Color Options – Fence caps do not just come in a single color. In fact, you can choose from a variety of colors to suit your team’s colors and help establish your brand. They are attractive and add contrast so that spectators can easily see the outline of the field.

• Combine With Other Fence Products – Fence caps can also be combined with windscreen to create an attractive athletic field.

Types of Fence Caps

There are several varieties of caps to choose from, but some of the more common ones include:

• Fence Crowns – These circular caps are made from corrugated tubing that have pre-made slits to slip over chain link fences.  19” tie wraps can be purchased and used for installation.

• Safety Top Caps – These are more durable and offer a sleeker, stronger top to your chain link fence.

• Poly Cap – This product is very similar to the fence crown with the pre-made slits that help to slip over fencing.  The color options are slightly different than fence crown.

• Fence Guards – Unlike caps and crowns that slip over the top of your fence, fence guards are secured in place and meant to cover the top poles of a chain link fence; not the exposed sharp edges.  This item includes hog rings for attachment.

Add greater protection and attractiveness to your facility by purchasing baseball fence caps from Richardson Athletics today. Call us at 800-895-2902 or order online.