Your complete guide to baseball bats
This week one lucky family found seven 100-year-old Ty Cobb baseball cards worth — wait for it — over $1,000,000 dollars! And it’s been all over the news, including on CBS Sports, Yahoo! Sports and the Associated Press. But here’s the original blog post by the official baseball card authenticator. And although the lucky […]
It has only been 10 months since Ruth Bats, a company that manufactures wooden baseball bats out of European Beech and Hard Maple, opened shop in Ithaca, NY — a town of 30,000 people located in the popular Finger Lakes tourist destination of Upstate New York. But in that short time, their founder and […]
You may have heard the term “fungo bat” and just weren’t sure exactly what it was. Or maybe you’ve been assuming coaches use the same exact bats in practice to hit grounders as the players do during actual games. Or, perhaps you’re already intimately familiar with fungo bats, but still want even more baseball […]
Last year, Easton announced the arrival of their Easton Power Sensor. But what exactly is it? Simply put, it’s a tool that they claim will help diagnose your swing and improve your approach at the plate. It’s a mobile app with video capture, and a bat attachment that tracks a batter’s swing. […]
As we follow the bats of the World Series closely for our Bat Series feature, it’s interesting to see the details of the bats each of the players use. And thanks to modern HDTV, we can get some pretty amazing closeups – like this one of Salvador Perez’s Marcucci bat inscribed with […]
Marucci Bats provided us exclusive insight into the home run stats of the #PostSeason up until the #WorldSeries. The stats, of course, of the bats! (If you want player stats, there are plenty of websites for that.) The Bat Brands with the most Home Runs in the 2015 Postseason First […]
If you follow BaseballBats.net on Twitter and Facebook, you already know that we love pictures of #SexyBats. Bats on baseball cards? Yes! Animated GIFs of bats? Awesome! Bat closeups? Can’t beat ’em! Personalized and customized bats? They’re the best! In this gallery, to welcome perhaps the most customizable bats in the […]
It’s official! The Winners of the Silver Slugger Award, which we covered last month, have been announced! And although the the MLB playoffs are in full swing and 650 players are sitting home, disappointed, two of those players just received the good news. Miguel Cabrera of the American League’s Detroit Tigers, and Dee Gordon of the National League’s […]
Update: MLB Coaches have voted on the winners — Miguel Cabrera and Dee Gordon. You can read more about it on our updated Silver Bat Award blog post. Every year since 1980, Louisville Slugger has presented the “Silver Slugger Awards” to award the top offensive players at each position from both […]