Your complete guide to baseball bats
Jesse LaCasse, a 30-year-old currently playing professional baseball in Germany, started making bats in 2006, using high quality beechwood and setting up shop with a lathe and a handful of custom orders. Now Subway is giving him a boost by highlighting LaCasse Bats in the 2010 Senior League World Series. […]
Just last week, we blogged about how dangerous broken bats can be – for players, coaches, officials and fans. So we weren’t too surprised to see this article in the news about a man who was hit in the face by a broken bat at a Mets game a few […]
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 […]
In a widely anticipated move, the National Federation of State High School Associations enacted a rule banning the use of composite bats in high school baseball effective from the start of the 2010-11 school year. They have, however, left some wiggle room, as the NFHS may consider waivers or modifications […]
Figuring out what to do when your playing days are over is a big deal for most professional athletes. Javy Lopez, one of the Atlanta Braves all-time fan favorites, is no exception. When Javy retired, he started his own bat company – Bones Bats – and he’s keeping himself busy […]
What’s the difference between reinventing the wheel and building a better mousetrap? The former is a pointless exercise, and the latter is, well, basically what a New Jersey man has done by creating a revolutionary new wood composite bat that’s shatterproof. MLB isn’t convinced, but we think these durable bats […]
The Mets caught a break when newly-crowned Miss USA Rima Fakih stopped by Citi Field before a game last Thursday. She posed for photos, chatted with players and took a few swings before the Mets took the field to face the Phillies. Rima, a long-time Met fan, brought the Mets […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]