History of Bat Design

Since 1884 the design has really changed. If you have a moment to go to the museum you'll see real thick handled bats and the barrels are quite small and more or less a straight taper. It would be just like somebody to take an axe handle or something or a Peavey handle or whatever and just kind of shape it a little bit for a bat. But they've now have thin handles the players want thin handles most of them wear batting gloves. And so that's another reason they want thin handles and they like large barrels. So it's kind of difficult even to get a really fine piece of timber for that type of bat. (off camera question - Do you make bats custom) All the bats that we make for the professional players are to their specifications. They order by model number, length, and weight, and also finish whatever type finish they want. So we do treat the major league professionals with special care.