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