Although the debate about banning metal baseball bats in youth baseball is not settled, high school and college players find themselves playing in wood bat summer leagues more and more these days. “It’s clearly a trend,” a coach told me last summer on opening day of the John Marzano Wood Bat Scout League in...
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Can you help me to choose a baseball bat? Hi, I’d like to buy a baseball bat but I don’t know what I should choose. I’m thinking about buying a wood bat made by Louisville Slugger or Rawlings, which one do you suggest me? Is it better a maple bat or an ash bat,...
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This post is structured in two parts: The first will talk strictly about ash baseball bats, and the second will be about maple baseball bats. You can then decide for yourself which wood baseball bat is more suitable for you. Ash is among the most common materials chosen to make bats out of. In...
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Although the debate about banning metal baseball bats in youth baseball is not settled, high school and college players find themselves playing in wood bat summer leagues more and more these days. “It’s clearly a trend,” a coach told me last summer on opening day of the John Marzano Wood Bat Scout League in...
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Don’t make the mistake of thinking all wood bats are the same. They may look similar, but the quality of the wood is very different from one wood bat company to another. Louisville Slugger sets itself apart from other bat makers with over 125 years of bat-making experience, outstanding turning models and the ability...
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If уου аrе looking tο рυrсһаѕе a professional baseball bat, tһеח tһеrе аrе ѕοmе things уου mυѕt keep іח mind. Tһе common сһοісе fοr tһе baseball bat material іѕ hard wood. Maple wood, a type οf hard wood, іѕ tһе mοѕt рοрυƖаr сһοісе fοr professional grade baseball bats. Tһіѕ іѕ bесаυѕе οf maple wood’s...
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In professional baseball, metal bats are not allowed. Wooden baseball bats are standard; heavy wooden bats in fact. If a player fills a wooden bat with cork so as to decrease its weight, he would be violating the rules. Before aluminum there was always wood. There is no doubt that key advantages come into...
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Until 2001, nearly all wood baseball bats were made from the same northern white ash that bats had been made from for over 100 years. That year, however, brought Barry Bonds, his incredible 73 home runs and an extremely quick change in the wood bat market. Bonds’ record breaking season brought attention to the...
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Wood bats were the only choice for any batter in the game of baseball until the mid 1970′s. But today, wood bats are used far less often than aluminum bats on both the baseball and softball diamonds. Pros are required to use wood bats, and for safety reasons, some high school leagues have recently...
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The Rise Of Birch Baseball Bats For over 100 hundred years, there has been a consistent king in the wood bat world. This one hundred year plus period has included many of the games most dominating diamond legends to ever set foot inside a batter’s box. Legends that include the likes of Ruth, Cobb,...
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