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Understanding BBCOR Ratings

With the impending start of the upcoming baseball season fast approaching, it’s a good time to review important guidelines pertaining to equipment. In recent years, there has been a major change related to the legality and certification of wood composite, aluminum and alloy bats being used by amateur players across […]

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Four Cool Videos Showing Bats Being Made

The Wall Street Journal Shows Us How Louisville Slugger Makes Their Famous Bats The “MLB Prime” wood bat, made by Louisville Slugger, is made of sugar maple. The process begins with the bat running through a locatelli CNC Lathe, which cuts the wood into a bat shape. Next the bat […]

Todd Frazier Uses a Marucci Bat to win the 2015 Home Run Derby
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Derby Champ Todd Frazier Uses a Marucci Bat

By now everyone knows who won the 2015 Major League Baseball Home Run Derby. But Reds Third Baseman, Todd Frazier, still has a secret. Cincinnati.com tells us that last July his trainer begged him to try out the largest bat on the squad, a 35-inch, 34-ounce monster Marucci bat. After […]

SnapBat Selfie Bat at 2015 Home Run Derby
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The Selfie Bat Debuts at the 2015 Home Run Derby

Monday night’s Home Run Derby debuted the SnapBat, a baseball-bat-turned-selfie-stick, that youthful fans and players used to capture the moment like never before. Yahoo! Sports took a deeper look at the process of inventing the SnapBat, saying it “puts the run-of-the-mill selfie stick to shame.” It was the brainchild of […]