Baseball spike guard

Claim 1

A BASEBALL SHOE SPIKE GUARD IN COMBINATION WITH A BASEBALL SHOE HAVING SPIKES COMPRISING: (A) A FLEXIBLE SPIKE GUARD SOLE MEMBER HAVING SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL UPPER AND LOWER SURFACES AND AN OUTER PERIPHERAL EDGE ADAPTED TO GENERALLY CORRESPOND TO THE OUTER PERIPHERAL EDGE OF THE BASEBALL SHOE TO WHICH IT IS ADAPTED TO BE SECURED, (B) SAID SOLE MEMBER BEING COMPRESSIBLE AND BEING COMPRISED OF COMPRESSIBLE, RESILIENT MATERIAL ADAPTED TO FLEX AND COMPRESS SUBSTANTIALLY IN RELATION TO THE WEIGHT AND FOOT MOVEMENTS OF THE WEIGHT AND FOOT MOVEMENTS OF THE WEARER OF THE BASEBALL SHOE, (C) SAID BASEBALL SHOE HAVING A SHOE SOLE, (D) SPIKE PLATES HAVING SPIKES EXTTENDING THEREFROM SECURED TO SAID SHOE SOLE, (E) SAID SPIKE GUARD SOLE MEMBER HAVING PREFROMED SPIKE PLATE RECESSES AND SPIKE WELLS IN ITS UPPER FACE CORRESPONDING IN SHAPE TO THE SHAPE OF SAID SPIKE PLATE AND SPIKES AND REGISTRABLE THEREWITH, THE OUTLINE OF SAID SPIKE PLATE RECESSES FITTING SNUGLY ABOUT THE EDGES OF THEIR CORRESPONDING SPIKE PLATES, (F) SAID SPIKE PLATE RECESSES BEING OF A DEPTH SUBSTANTIALLY EQUAL TO THE THICKNESS OF SAID SPIKE PLATES, (G) SAID SPIKE WELLS BEING OF A DEPTH SUBSTANTIALLY GREATER THAN THE LENGTH OF SAID SPIKES, (H) WHEREBY WHEN A PLAYER WEARING SAID SPIKE GUARD PLACES HIS WEIGHT ON ONE FOOT, SAID COMPRESSIBLE SPIKE GUARD SOLE MATERIAL IS COMPRESSED TO A POINT WHERE THE ENDS OF SAID SPIKES TERMINATE SHORT OF THE ENDS OF SAID SPIKE WELLS, AND (I) WHEREBY WHEN SAID PLAYER''S WEIGHT IS SHIFTED FROM SAID ONE FOOT TO THE PLAYER''S OTHER FOOT, SAID RESILIENT COMPRESSIBLE SOLE MEMBER URGES SAID ENDS OF SAID SPIKE WELLS AWAY FROM SAID SPIKE ENDS, AND THEREBY CREATES A PARTIAL VACUUM IN SAID SPIKE PLATE RECESSES AND SPIKE WELLS TO HOLD SAID SPIKE GUARD SOLE MEMBER IN POSITION ON SAID SHOE SOLE, AND (J) STRAP MEANS SECURED IN OVERLYING RELATION TO SAID SPIKE GUARD SOLE MEMBER ADAPTED TO OVERLIE THE UPPER PORTION OF SAID BASEBALL SHOE.