I bought this for my son with visions of t-ball in the backyard, lemonade, good ol summertime fun. Well, that didn't happen. The Balls are too heavy, pitching feature pitched it like 3 inches so unless your child is a Thumballina twin forget that. The batteries lasted as long as it took to take it outside, get really frustrated, and go back in. Really. My son did use the t-ball stand. Once. It's too low for him. So if you ant a t-ball stand for young young child its ok. But the pitching feature and balls theselves are a waste. All in all, just save some dough and get a 5 doller t-ball stand. If you need it to pitch get something else alltogether.