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3 sie 2013 · In 2008, bats split into pieces once a game on average, posing injury risks to players, umpires and even fans. The issue coincided with a rapid rise in the popularity of maple bats.
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.
15 lip 2008 · Scientists and engineers have also considered the problem — they know that differences between maple bats and the more traditional ash bats, as well as the ways that a bat is shaped and hit,...
20 lis 2018 · Pests have wreaked havoc on North American trees in the maple-bat era. The emerald ash borer (EAB) and Asian longhorned beetle (ALB) are two invasive insects that have devastated woodlands that supply bat wood to MLB.
5 sie 2016 · An Insect Could Make Ash Baseball Bats a Thing of the Past. The invasive emerald ash borer is threatening the forests where Rawlings and Louisville Sluggers come from, putting the bats in...
2 lip 2013 · While bats made of ash have always been a popular choice, maple, willow and pine were also commonly used, and it wasn’t unheard of to see spruce, cherry, chestnut and sycamore.
28 sie 2018 · Since Bonds started using a maple bat to crush balls into McCovey Cove, maple has supplanted ash as Major League Baseball’s wood of choice, a fortuitous change since America’s supply of ash...
