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Inside A Baseball Bat

Even though the composite bat is a new technology in baseball, composite type bats have been around as early as the ‘80s in slow-pitch softball. With advances in the composite bat technology over the years, these bats have regained strength. Most notably, Louisville Slugger developed a slow-pitch bat that was awarded best performance at the 2001 Bat Wars. Miken responded in 2002 by developing

their own composite softball bat.Even though composite material has only been historically used in slow-pitch and softball, this technology has been emerging in high school and collegiate baseball over the past few years.

Even though composite baseball bats have a different design compared to standard aluminum bats, they still must meet the same specifications as the standard aluminum baseball bat. To be suitable for high school and collegiate play, they must meet weight, dimension, and rebound rate requirements. The composite bat must have a -3 drop, which means that the bat must weigh 3 ounc-es less than the length (i.e. 33in 30oz). Also, the baseball bat must have a barrel that is 2 5/8” in diameter (except Little League Division’s Majors and below use a 2 1/4” diameter bat). Finally, composite bats for high school and college play were required to meet a specific BESR (Ball Exit Speed Ratio) through 2010. Composite bats will be required to meet BBCOR (Bat-Ball Coefficient of Restitution) standards for 2011 college and high school play. Little League International has not officially endorsed BBCOR standards as of this date but currently has in place a similar moratorium on composite bats. The BBCOR bats were supposed to be the next evolutionary step in making metal bats per-form more like wood bats.

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he earliest known mention of baseball in the United States was a 1791 Pittsfield, Massa-chusetts, ordinance banning the playing of the game within 80 yards (73 m) of the town meeting house.[1] In 1903, the British sportswriter Henry Chadwick published an article speculating that baseball derived from a British game called rounders, which Chadwick had played as a boy in England. But baseball executive Albert Spalding disagreed. Base-ball, said Spalding, was fundamentally an American sport and began on American soil. To settle the matter, the two men appointed a commission, headed by Abraham Mills, the fourth president of the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs. The commission, which also included six other sports executives, labored for three years, after which it de-

clared that Abner Doubleday invented the national pastime. This would have been a surprise to Doubleday. The late Civil War hero “never knew that he had invented baseball. [But] 15 years [after his death], he was anointed as the father of the game,” writes baseball historian John Thorn. The myth about Doubleday inventing the game of baseball actually came from a Colorado mining engineer.Another early reference reports that base ball was regular-ly played on Saturdays in 1823 on the outskirts of New York City in an area that today is Greenwich Village.

In 1828, an article published in a Hagerstown, Maryland, newspaper brief-ly describes a young girl who’s drawn away from her daily chores to play a familiar game with her friends. In “A Village Sketch,” author Miss Mitford wrote: “Then comes a sun-burnt gipsy of six, beginning to grow tall and thin and to find the cares of the world gathering about her; with a pitcher in one hand, a mop in the other, an old straw bonnet of ambiguous shape, half hiding her tangled hair; a tattered stuff petticoat once green, hanging below an equally tattered cotton frock, once purple; her longing eyes fixed on a game of baseball at the corner of the green till she reaches the cottage door, flings down the mop and pitcher and darts off to her companions quite regardless of the storm of scolding with which the mother follows her run-away steps.”The first team to play baseball under modern rules were the New York Knickerbockers. The club was founded on September 23, 1845, as

a social club for the upper middle classes of New York City, and was strictly ama-teur until it disbanded.

The club members, which included its president Doc Adams and Alex-ander Cartwright, formulated the Knickerbocker Rules, which in large part dealt with organizational matters but which also laid out rules for playing the game.[8] Among the rules introduced then, and which characterize modern baseball are: nine-man teams; nine-inning games; bases 90 feet apart; elimination of the bound rule. One of the significant rules prohibited soaking or plugging the runner; under older rules, a fielder could put a runner out by hitting the runner with the thrown ball, similarly to the common schoolyard game of kickball. The Knickerbocker Rules required fielders to tag or force the runner, as is done today, and avoided a lot of the arguments and fistfights that resulted from the earlier practice.

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Writing the rules didn’t help the Knickerbockers in the first known competitive game between two clubs under the new rules, played at Elysian Fields in Hoboken, New Jersey on June 19, 1846. The self-styled “New York Nine” humbled the Knickerbockers by a score of 23 to 1. Nevertheless, the Knickerbocker Rules were rapidly adopted by teams in the New York area and their version of baseball became known as the “New York Game” (as opposed to the “Massachusetts Game”, played by clubs in the Boston area).As late as 1855, the New York press was still devoting more space to coverage of cricket than to baseball.

In 1857, sixteen New York area clubs, including the Knickerbockers, formed the National Associa-

tion of Base Ball Players (NABBP). The NABBP was the first organization to

govern the sport and to establish a championship. Aided by the Civil War, membership grew to almost 100 clubs by 1865 and to over 400 by 1867, including clubs from as far away

as California. During the Civil War, soldiers from different parts of the United States played baseball together, leading to a more unified national version of the sport.

Beginning in 1869, the NABBP permitted professional play, addressing a growing practice that had not been permitted under its rules to that point. The first and

most prominent professional clubs of the NABBP era were the Cincinnati Red Stockings in Ohio, which lasted only two years. Businessman Ivers Whitney Adams then courted manager Harry Wright and founded the “Boston Red Stockings” and the Boston Base Ball Club January 20, 1871.

In 1858 in Corona, Queens New York, at the Fashion Race Course, the first games of baseball to charge admission took place. The games, which took place between the all stars of Brooklyn, including players from the Brook-lyn Atlantics, Excelsior of Brooklyn, Putnams and Eckford of Brooklyn, and the All Stars of New York (Manhattan), including players from the New York Knickerbockers, Gothams (predecessors of the San Francisco Gi-ants), Eagles and Empire, are commonly believed to the first all star base-ball games. [10] [11] It was not the Black Sox scandal by which an end was

put to the dead-ball era, but by a rule change and a single player.

Some of the increased offensive output can be explained by the 1920 rule change outlawing tampering with the ball, which pitchers had often done to produce

“spitballs”, “shine balls” and other trick pitches which had ‘unnatural’ flight through the air. Umpires were also required to put new balls into play whenever the

current ball became scuffed or discolored. This rule change was enforced all the more stringently following the death of Ray Chapman, who was struck in the temple by a

pitched ball from Carl Mays in a game on August 16, 1920 (he died the next day). Discol-ored balls, harder for batters to see and therefore harder for batters to dodge, have been rigorously

removed from play ever since. There are two side effects. One, of course, is that if the batter can see the ball more easily, the batter can hit the ball more easily. The second is that without scuffs and other

damage, pitchers are limited in their ability to control spin and so to cause altered trajectories.

At the end of the 1919 season Harry Frazee, then owner of the Boston Red Sox, sold a group of his star players to the New York Yankees. Amongst them was George Herman Ruth, known affectionately as “Babe”. The story that Frazee did so in order to fund theatrical shows on Broadway for his actress lady friend is unfounded. No, No, Nanette was indeed first produced in 1925 by Harry Frazee, though the sale of baseball superstar Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees had occurred five years earlier. In the lore of the Curse of the Bambino, Frazee supposedly financed the production by selling Ruth, yet drawing a line five years apart from the sale’s proceeds to the pro-duction costs of the musical are circumstantial at best.vvvvvvvv

irst you need a partner. Second you need a baseball glove and bat. Your bat shouldn’t be to heavy or to light also it shouldn’t be to long or to

short. You should have a bat that is just right. Also you need a baseball if you don’t have a baseball use a tennis ball (not recommended).

First stretch a little bit. Then try to throw the baseball to your partner try not to throw it under hand or side arm. Underhand is not good for the arm, and it’s better to learn overhand when you’re just starting. For now try to stay at least 10-15ft apart. Just keep throwing the ball back to each other for a little while. Try to follow through and at the end of the throw your arm should be pointing at the person you are throwing the baseball to. Practice throwing like picture 3 and 4 with only your wrist now once you have done that for a while practice with your partner. Now put all the pictures together arm up wrist cocked back and end up pointing at your partner.Now you know the basics of throwing.

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