Baseball Bats?

Question

Im new to the wood bat game, and was wondering what kind of bat to get, brand and type of wood?

Answer 1

Louisville Slugger

Answer 2

Composite Wood Bat: Strongest and most durable because it’s wound with rough polyurethane ergo making them unusable in some leagues. Most folks probably haven’t seen them because they weren’t around until the 80s.

Hickory and Maple: They're very hard and don't get nicked up as bad as the softer lumber bats. They sound and feel really odd (heavy in the wrong places) unless you use them a lot. Expensive last I checked.

White Ash: Louisville Slugger (and other soft ashes). Their wood was becoming more and more inferior in the 90s. That or the other makers with better lumber started to flood the market. Every minor leaguer uses them (sole supplier for a long time) until they get higher up the ranks and have a choice. Some continue to use them and some don’t. They’ll break easily if you get jammed or if you hit it off the end. Lowest cost for many reasons including availability and mass production of young trees.

The best bats I ever used were some of the Japanese wood bats, like Mizuno. They had the perfect weight and feel plus some compression technology that made them hard as rocks. Cat couldn't scratch them. Hard to get and expensive.

Tip: Hold any wood bat with your normal batting grip and in your normal batting stance. Now hold the bat with your arms straight out in front of you and across the plate. Point the label straight up to the sky. Now give the bat 1/8 of a turn towards the pitcher. That’s more or less the part of the bat you want to hit it on to reduce breaks and also make the bat strongest; against the grain but not directly on the label.


All that said, wood breaks. If your competition uses aluminum, use aluminum, titanium, graphite, composite, whatever....point is there are a lot of difficulties in baseball. No sense in making it tougher by using a bunch of different bats that will break your heart when they break, especially if one feels really good. Eliminate that variable if it’s financially responsible. The sweet spot on the bat is longer (bigger) with aluminum and it “starts” to teach you how to hit correctly. Also it will absorb the impact of hitting it incorrectly. (They don’t break!). You can introduce a composite bat for batting practice. As strength and confidence increases (from success after success) introduce wood if it’s necessary for that league or level. Taking your eyes to the where you hit the ball is more important than the bat you are using. Ultimately, the lifespan of an aluminum bat and its cost will far outperform the number of wood bats you'll purchase if you practice as much as you should.

Answer 3

http://www.bamboobat.com/

"Bamboo is:
A viable replacement for wood. Bamboo is one of the strongest building materials. Bamboo's tensile strength is 28,000 per square inch versus 23,000 for steel."

Basically, Bamboo is stronger than steel and propels the ball amazing distances.
Bamboo is amazing!

Answer 4

louiville slugger. Great mlb brand.