All About Baseball Bats
By now you may have heard about the upcoming rule change going in to affect on January 1st, 2018. Little League, Pony, Babe Ruth, Cal Ripken, and almost every other youth baseball organization is adopting a new youth baseball bat standard: USABat Standard bats. The Integrity of the Game Little League and Pony, the …
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Little league has no “real” umps at games, but they do have volunteers that take the time to learn the rules for little league play. But there seems to be unwritten rules for players to follow once they step onto the field. The following are suggestions from the parents’ sides of little league, as they …
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Yet, is a natural tendency for any Little League athlete to choose the heaviest bat in the pile to take to the batter’s box. However, a light bat is much simpler to control, which is often contrary to popular thinking. Professionals players often use a lighter bat because it is far easier to hit the …
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There is a basic coaching philosophy for working with Little League athletes that’s not much different from being a coach at a higher level of education. The coach or coaches on the team act as a role model to every player. Not only is the Little League athlete going to look to their coach for instruction …
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So you all know that DeMarini has made a huge impact in the baseball bat world over the past ten years. DeMarini first came out with the Vexxum for high school and college play, and it took Easton and TPX by surprise. The Voodoo was right behind the Vexxum and offered the same barrel, but …
DeMarini has officially announced details of their new 2013 baseball bats. We have not swung them yet, but we expect good things as always from the Oregon baseball bat company founded by Ray DeMarni. DeMarini will keep the 2013 CF5, 2013 VooDoo, 2013 Vexxum and 2013 M2M in the line with a few small changes. Bat …
Since 1999, when Anderson made their first softball bat, there has been only one composite bat to come out of their company, the Anderson Matrix for slow pitch softball. For 2012, across it’s entire line, they are releasing the Anderson NanoTek with a composite handle in both baseball bats and softball bats. The Anderson NanoTek …
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We have confirmation that some sizes in the BBCOR CF5 and Little League DeMarini CF5 baseball bats have been shipped from DeMarini headquarters in Oregon to at least a few of their dealers. CheapBats.com said they should have the DeMarini CF5 in the sizes and models listed below by Thursday this week. BBCOR DeMarini CF5 …
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We have a few details about the new Combat B4 Baseball Bat for youth league and Little League play. First of all, the new Combat B4 is approved on the Little League website. Combat expects the B4 to be released and arrive to dealers in early to mid June of 2011. Like most Combat youth …
A mysterious new Combat baseball bat has shown up on the approved composite bat list for Little League. Apparently, Little League contacted Combat and recommended that Combat place a ring inside the barrel of the current Combat B3 Gear in hopes that the retrofit ring would allow the current Combat Gear to pass the strict …
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We have heard Little League may be bothered by the lack of ANY other youth baseball organization following their lead when they banned composite bats. Previously, Little League had researched and adopted baseball bat standards for itself and most other youth leagues. By doing this, everyone was always in agreement of what standards needed to …
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