1870s: Ash from the white ash tree and hickory emerge as the favored wood choices for bats. ... 1970: Jose Cardenal becomes one of the earliest major-leaguers to use a cupped bat, ...

Ash wood is a softer wood that has a tendency ... Thirty years before that, it was the sudden appearance of cupped bats, a style in which the end of the bat is hollowed out. The origin story ...

Cape Cod League baseball players and managers prefer wood bats over aluminum bats, mirroring professional baseball. Wood bats ...

The bat shall be one piece of solid wood.”Bats are allowed to have a cupped indentation up to 1 1/14 inches deep, 2 inches wide, and with at least a 1-inch diameter.However, any experimental ...

The bat shall be one piece of solid wood.” It goes on to state there may be a cupped indentation up to 1 1/4 inches in depth, 2 inches wide and with at least a 1-inch diameter, and experimental ...

For a sense of how a torpedo shape might help a batter, consider modern "cupped" bats, ... president of PFS-TECO, a wood products company that inspects bats used in the MLB.

The bat shall be one piece of solid wood." Also, there may be a cupped indentation up to 1 ¼ inches in depth, 2 inches wide, and with at least a 1-inch diameter.

It brings more wood - and mass - to where you most often ... League Baseball of his design and methods of manufacture. (b) Cupped Bats. An indentation in the end of the bat up to 1¼ inches ...

For the 2025 season, at least three active MVP winners — Ronald Acuna Jr., Cody Bellinger and Christian Yelich — are swinging Slugger bats, Redman said. Louisville natives Jo Adell, Will Smith and ...

Wee Willie, wood wars and the wild west of bat experiments The torpedo is the talk of 2025, but bat customizations -- like Babe Ruth's thin handles and Shoeless Joe's "Black Betsy" -- have changed ...

The bat shall be one piece of solid wood.” It goes on to state there may be a cupped indentation up to 1 1/4 inches in depth, 2 inches wide and with at least a 1-inch diameter, and experimental ...