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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.
19 sty 2009 · Extensive testing from MLB during its nearly six-month-long study of maple bats showed hitting on the wood's face grain would produce fewer catastrophic breaks than the edge grain.
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 · He found out from MLB today that the bat he used last night was not a legal bat. It was a model that he obtained from Albert Pujols, and he used it because he thought it was very similar in...
30 paź 2022 · Astros’ Martin Maldonado made an honest mistake with the illegal bats. According to Joel Sherman of the New York Post, “A player may use a maple bat, but it has to meet MLB standards for slope of...
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...
20 lis 2018 · Even bat wood species have transitioned from hickory and the traditional ash to maple, which dominates today in major-league baseball (MLB). As baseball and its people have changed, the use of wood to make bats has not.
