Monday night’s Home Run Derby debuted the SnapBat, a baseball-bat-turned-selfie-stick, that youthful fans and players used to capture the moment like never before.<\/p>\n

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Yahoo! Sports<\/a> took a deeper look at the process of inventing the SnapBat, saying it “puts the run-of-the-mill selfie stick to shame.”<\/p>\n

It was the brainchild of MLB Advanced Media’s Andrew LeRay, who said it took just five weeks to produce after the idea came out during a June brainstorming session. BaseballBat.net fans can catch up on all the online chatter using the hashtag #SnapBat.<\/p>\n

On the left you can see the initial prototype compared to the final Louisville Slugger<\/a> SnapBat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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