| In professional baseball, metal bats are not | | | | catchy to the eye, these types of bats still rely |
| allowed. Wooden baseball bats are standard; | | | | on tested and proven principles that continue to |
| heavy wooden bats in fact. If a player fills a | | | | manifest today. |
| wooden bat with cork so as to decrease its | | | | While metal bats are all the rage with younger |
| weight, he would be violating the rules. Before | | | | players and are even required for certain leagues, |
| aluminum there was always wood. There is no | | | | the old-fashioned wooden bat will not be fading |
| doubt that key advantages come into play when | | | | out anytime soon. The simple fact of feeling that |
| swinging with wooden baseball bats. | | | | wooden grip makes all the difference. After all, it |
| Wooden baseball bats are actually safer than | | | | is because they are so much more challenging to |
| metal bats anyhow, because metal bats send the | | | | use than aluminum bats and the like, that they are |
| ball out at a greater velocity and thus increase | | | | so popular. Baseball bat manufacturer Hillerich and |
| the risk of injury to anyone who may get in the | | | | Bradsby even purchased Larimer and Norton, Inc., |
| way. These proffered baseball bats of the pros | | | | a lumber company, so as to keep their wooden |
| are made from ash and other types of wood, | | | | baseball bats in efficient supply. This is a clear |
| especially maple wood (record-setting hitter Barry | | | | indication that we can only expect to see the |
| Bonds used a bat made out of maple wood). | | | | wooden baseball bat industry grow with increased |
| Wooden bats really haven't changed much over | | | | force. |
| the past hundred years. Besides from being more | | | | |