Alcore Honeycomb Helps Batters Play Ball

Seattle, Washington – 19 November 2003 – It has been a struggle to find a way to help batters see pitches at Seattle’s Safeco Field ballpark because of the glare off the back wall. Numerous attempts have been made to alleviate the problem, including adjusting the wall angle, moving it 20 feet to one side, painting it a variety of colors in addition to planting and removing a grove of trees. The Seattle Mariners have also changed game times, but even that didn’t solve the problem. Now Alcore, part of the M. C. Gill Corporation Group of Companies, has provided aluminum honeycomb which is powder-coated a flat black, attached to panels and mounted on the wall. This presents a non-reflective surface that will eliminate glare while holding up to the weather. It is ambitious to think that aluminum honeycomb can improve a major league team’s battling average, but consider that the Mariners have been hitting .259 as a team at home and .297 on the road. That is coupled with an average of 5.8 runs on the road but only 4.2 runs at home. Alcore aluminum honeycomb is usually used for aerospace applications, though there is growing awareness of its ability to adapt to a wide range of uses, including some as unexpected as in professional baseball parks. Play ball!

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