Your complete guide to baseball bats
Baseball bats, in the early days of baseball, came in all shapes and sizes. In the 1850’s baseball was an extremely young sport and batters made their own bats and experimented with bats of all varieties (long, short, flat, heavy). They quickly learned that bats with rounded barrels seemed to […]
A Night of #ASG Firsts Tonight’s All-Star game marks two exciting firsts for the world of baseball, and particularly for the world of baseball bats. Boston Red Sox outfielder Mookie Betts will be playing in his first All-Star Game tonight, at the young age of twenty-three. And his innovative Axe […]
In this week’s news roundup…Major League baseball bats go pink, Joe Maddon warns young bat flippers, a hot new bat company opens in Chicago, and extended netting in MLB ballparks is actually doing some good. MLB Honors Mother’s Day by Going Pink New MLB-Approved Bat Company Opens in Suburban Chicago […]
In this week’s baseball bat news roundup, we’ve got everything from bat flips to virtual batting practice to Jack White. (Yes, the musician Jack White – he’s involved with baseball bats now.) Read on and enjoy these recent stories: Musician Jack White and Ian Kinsler Invest in Warstic Bat Company […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]