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19 sty 2009 · Less than a week after Major League Baseball announced new regulations in December concerning maple-wood bat production, a bat manufacturer named Romeo Filip sent an email to the owners and...
2 mar 2010 · NEW YORK — Many maple bats will be banned in the minor leagues this season, part of Major League Baseball’s push to stop shattered shards of wood from flying dangerously through the air. New...
30 paź 2022 · Major League Baseball forced Houston Astros catcher Martín Maldonado to stop using an illegal maple bat after Game 1 of the World Series on Friday, reports the New York Post.
Maple bats are known as diffuse-porous, making the bat able to crack in any direction, making it more likely for a dramatic break. Maple also has finer grain, which makes it harder to make a quality bat consistently. A better explanation can be found in the first link below.
12 cze 2008 · Sam Holman's brainstorm started the maple-bat craze. Now as dangers surface, he laments the "inferior products" of competitors.
19 sty 2009 · Less than a week after Major League Baseball announced new regulations in December concerning maple-wood bat production, a bat manufacturer named Romeo Filip sent an email to the owners and...
3 sty 2022 · Almost overnight, there was an explosion of interest in this small Canadian maple bat company. Hitters turned from ash to maple in droves. Sporting goods stores wanted to stock maple bats.