Your complete guide to baseball bats
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 […]
During yesterday’s spring training game between the Pirates and the Braves at Walt Disney World, a sports photojournalist from Pittsburgh captured an amazing moment from an everyday superhero. This hero had no cape; he sported a baseball cap, sunglasses and buffed-up forearms. Photographer Christopher Horner lit up twitter with the photos that captured the moment, receiving […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
For a unique spin on the ol’ 30/30 Club, The Chicago Cubs’ Anthony Rizzo has not just hit 30 Home Runs, but tonight he also achieved his 30th hit-by-pitch. According to Major League Baseball, only one other player in MLB since 1914 has hit at least 30 homers while enduring […]
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 […]
Broken wood bats can be dangerous. Razor-sharp shards of wood flying through the air, who knows where they may land? Players, coaches, officials and fans have all been injured by broken bats. There’s been a lot of talk about the relative safety of wood bats recently, which makes us wonder about […]