USA Today High School Sports: Would switching to wood bats benefit high school baseball? AOL: From Billet To Bat: How Wooden Bats Used in Mickey Mantle Classic Are Made If you've been following along with the Mickey Mantle Classic baseball tournament, you might have noticed the athletes using wooden bats. Our Ryan Bunnell sat down with JD Anderson, owner of Home Run ...
From Billet To Bat: How Wooden Bats Used in Mickey Mantle Classic Are Made The New York Yankees set a franchise record for home runs with nine on Saturday at home against the Milwaukee Brewers. Perhaps the team's newly-designed wooden bats had something to do with it? GeekWire on MSN: 'Wood is wood': WSU research finds Yankees' viral 'torpedo' bats perform the same as traditional bats Scientists took their best swing at the torpedo bat design, which relies on a slightly different shape in which wood is removed from the barrel tip and added to the bat's sweet spot. 'Wood is wood': WSU research finds Yankees' viral 'torpedo' bats perform the same as traditional bats Go ahead and ask Brian Marquardt what he thinks about the danger of aluminum bats.Actually, just look at the scar across his head.The 19-year-old from Wood Dale was seriously injured in 2005 during ...
