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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 · Bat evolution The maple vs. ash controversy didn't exist in the early days of baseball: When Babe Ruth was hitting homers, he — and every other player — used a hickory bat. "Hickory was a ...
30 lip 2024 · Insert maple wood bats. Blessed with a naturally higher density than ash, maple proved to be the perfect answer to baseball’s problem. Around the 1990s maple started to take over the game. Ash bats remained popular but it was easy to see that maple wood bats were the future of baseball.
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.
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...
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...
