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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.
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 · The debate over maple bats stokes ardor on both sides, and nothing illustrates this better than the argument by some manufacturers that MLB's new rules – backed up by a multi-pronged study...
For decades, baseball bats had been made almost exclusively of ash. But in the mid-1990s, Sam Holman, a sort of Johnny Mapleseed of baseball bats, started experimenting with maple, giving samples to several players for the nearby Toronto Blue Jays. Eventually, one found its way into Bonds’ hands.
While much of the baseball bat controversy has dealt with using aluminum bats at the amateur level as opposed to wooden bats at the professional level, there appears to be a new situation brewing with the type of wood that professional baseball players are choosing.
