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Akadema makes the 'Catch'

One day in 1993 (during his 1990-94 stint as a minor league baseball player), Lawrence Gilligan sat in his hotel room and drew a picture of a new kind of baseball glove- one that he thought looked good and offered a very functional change. Some years later, in 1997, he and his brother, Joe founded Garfield-based Akadema, a baseball and softball company for professional, college, high school and serious youth players. When patenting a design, Lawrence says the reaction Akadema looks for from players is: " Why hasn't anyone done this yet?", That he says, shows it is a unique, idea that a player will accept.