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 […]
Bryce Harper recently released a video of his pre-game hitting routine. It was nothing short of fascinating for the typical fan, and even more amazing for the hard-core player in us all. But for the team here at BaseballBats.net, our favorite part was pausing each time he switched bats! We noticed […]
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 […]
We’ve all heard of a certain bat company from Louisville, Kentucky that has been around since the days of Babe Ruth. There’s another bat company, however, from a different Louisville (Ohio) that fewer people know about – that is beginning to make a splash among today’s major leaguers. Started in […]
While nothing can fully replicate the in-game batting experience, one MLB team is getting closer than ever before. The Tampa Bay Rays are using a new simulator known as iCube to let players practice their swings inside a virtual batting cage. A major selling point of this simulator is that […]
Just when we thought Major League Baseball was heading down the same road as the NFL (the No Fun League), they do something like this. The league lifted the recently-imposed ban on personalized bat knob stickers, deciding that allowing self-expression could be good for our national pastime after all. Bryce “Let’s Make Baseball […]
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 […]
We introduce to you BaseballBats.net’s official baseball bat news roundup! No need for you to Google around the Web every day, as we’ll bring you this simple and fun gathering of the best baseball bat news items you would have otherwise missed. Enjoy! This week we bring you the following […]
At long last, iconic bat maker Louisville Slugger is offering bespoke bats to the masses (they’re not just for professionals any more), following scores of smaller-scale competitors who have offered this service for years. The unveiling of Louisville’s sluggercustombats.com is the first of a two-part launch of its new customization […]