History of Baseball Bats

The history of baseball bats dates back to 1800s. While this period, baseball was in its infancy, and players made their own bats from wood, without any exact shape or size; players experimented with long, short, flat, and heavy bats, and they finally built a bat with a round barrel.

In 1859, the first rule was made concerning the size of the baseball bat. The rule prescribed the allowable width of the bat, 2.5 inches in diameter, but no length was prescribed. In 1869, other rule was made to restrict the length of the bat to 42 inches (the same maximum length allowed today). Even though there was no rule concerning the shape of the bats, most of the players used bats with flat surfaces. Baseball underwent some developments While the succeeding years. In 1890, a committee made a rule concerning the shape of the bat; the rule recommend the round shape of the bat and fixed the diameter to 2.75 inches at the end

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Baseball came to a new phase with the introduction of metal belts in 1970. Bats made of aluminum became an instant success, as they are lightweight, durable, and much faster than wooden bats. Although titanium bats were introduced in 1993, they were banned from expert games because of other dangers. Discrete types of aluminum baseball bats were introduced While the 1990s. Bats made of scandium aluminum are the most popular today.

A great deal of study was conducted and many resulting modifications were made by industry to heighten the trampoline consequent of the bat and to increase the size of the sweet spot (the place on the bat for hitting the ball). A double-walled bat, a new develop introduced in the 1990s, consists of an outer wall of scandium-aluminum and an inner wall of a composite material (often graphite), and a thick fluid or rubber in the middle of these two walls. Today, suitable wooden bats are made of maple, white ash, and bamboo; these bats are used in expert baseball tournaments.

The past 150 years have seen many important changes to the baseball bat, and the develop of the bat continues to evolve.

History of Baseball Bats

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