Organize Your Dugout – Buy a Bat Hanger

Is your dugout a horrible mess during practice and games? Do you have bats and balls rolling all over the place, tripping people up – potentially causing accidents and injuries? Do you find yourself scrambling to find all of the equipment you brought once the game is over? This is a fairly common problem with a relatively easy solution: buy a bag hanger.

A bat hanger is one of those plastic or metal racks that can be hooked into a number of different places in your dugout. For instance, if you have a chain link dugout, as many high school and little league teams use, you can simply attach the bat hanger to the links. If, on the other hand, you have a concrete bunker dugout,  you may need to purchase a rack without hooks – or a rack that you can nail onto wood railings in the dugout.

You can get a bat hanger from most sporting good stores – or online, from a number of baseball equipment manufacturers, such as Rawlings or Wilson. These companies also sell a number of alternatives to the bat hanger, including massive canvas duffel bags that can hold all of your bats, your balls, and your gloves in different compartments.

If you'd rather get something more personalized, you can purchase a nameplate bat hanger from a smaller, more service-oriented company. One such company is Dugout Candy, which sells a number of  different baseball specialty products, but focuses on the nameplate bag hanger.

Regardless of how you do it, it is crucial to organize your dugout, so the players can concentrate on the game, rather than avoiding that mess of bats and balls rolling around. Organizing the dugout will also ensure that you go through each season without losing any equipment.