About the ProGrip Inventor Eugene J. Bleecker II has been a student of the game of baseball his entire life. From the time Eugene was 7 until he was 17 he spent the duration of every summer at New York Tech Baseball Academy learning everything he could about the game.

He was selected as an All-American his senior year of high school in addition to receiving many other accolades throughout his high school years. He also received baseball scholarships to each school he attended during his collegiate career. Eugene played his first two years for the NAIA perennial powerhouse Bellevue University Bruins in Omaha, Nebraska where he had the opportunity to play in the NAIA College World Series. He then went on to play at Southwestern Community College in San Diego, California for one season. Eugene played two summers in the highly respected Jayhawk summer baseball league for the El Dorado Broncos where he had some of the best baseball experiences of his life playing in two NBC World Series finishing fourth and sixth, as well as being fortunate enough to play with some of the up and coming stars of Major League Baseball. Eugene finished up his collegiate career at Newman University in Wichita, Kansas where he unfortunately suffered an injury two weeks before his last season began. Since then he’s been giving private baseball instruction covering all aspects of the game including hitting, pitching, fielding and catching.