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1934 lou gehrig and his bat Wheaties Box
Baseball Bat History, Baseball Bat Pics, MLB

76 Baseball Bat Pictures on Historical Wheaties Boxes: 1934 – 2007

In our opinion, baseball bats don’t typically receive the credit they deserve. But one company in particular has, perhaps unintentionally, featured the-bats-that-made-the-hitters. Quite prominently, in fact, in their marketing initiatives. Through a blog post from the Cereal Price Guide blog, the team here at BaseballBats.net has discovered nearly 80 Wheaties cereal boxes that […]

NY Times Coverage of BWP Bats
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Inside the Bat-Making Industry

Interesting article by Ken Belson at The New York Times website about the bat-making industry. The story focuses on BWP Bats, a up-and-coming player in the industry that specializes in maple bats it manufactures from wood it harvests from its own forests and runs through its own mills. There’s a lot of inside info […]

vernon wells toronto bluejays with bat
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Vernon Wells and the Hecklers

Had you already heard about the response Vernon Wells had for a bunch of hecklers at the beginning of this month? After enough innings of shouts and jeers, the story goes, Wells tossed a ball up to the stands, with a handwritten message: “Here’s your ball, now please tell me what gas […]

Polly Tompkins First Pitch Yankees
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Honorary Bat Girl Polly Tompkins Hangs with A-Rod & Jeter

Baseball’s efforts for cancer awareness don’t stop a the MLB-wide Mother’s Day campaign. This week, the Yankees welcomed an honorary bat girl, Polly Tompkins, who is battling stage 4 melanoma. Tompkins threw out the first pitch, hung out with Alex Rodriguez, Derek Jeter, and Nick Swisher, and brought about 100 friends and family […]