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Softball Bats

By bethperdue

  • Wooden Bat

    Wooden Bat
    A humble woodworking shop specializing in bed pins and furniture manufacturing would soon become the leading manufacturer and distributor of wooden baseball and softball bats. J.F. Hillerich Job Turning was based in Louisville, Kentucky, owned and operated by J. Frederick Hillerich, a German immigrant.

  • First bat

    First bat
    The first bat was only a broken off broom handle.
    a reporter named George Hancock developed a game he called "indoor baseball." The first game was played at the Farragut Boat Club between a group of Harvard alumni and a group of Yale alumni, using a boxing glove as a ball and a broom handle as a bat. Hancock later revised the rules of the game and softball was born.

  • Aluminum

    Aluminum
    Easton made the first aluminum bat. Most of the players like the aluminum bats better because the ball came off faster than off of the wood.Easton and other bat manufacturers continue to make aluminum bats for both fast-pitch and slow-pitch softball players.

  • Composite

    Composite
    1985, the first composite bat appeared on the market.
    Composite bats, or bats made of multiple types of materials, have been and continue to be marketed by softball bat suppliers.Players found them inferior to aluminum bats until the early 2000s.

  • Single-Walled Titanium

    Single-Walled Titanium
    This advancement allowed bat barrels to be much thinner compared to aluminum and yet still withstand the impact of the ball without denting. In an effort to produce higher performing bats using mainly aluminum alloys, designers started experimenting with barrels that had two or more layers of metal or metal/composite hybrids.

  • Titanium

    Titanium
    Softball players found the titanium bats preferable to aluminum because they were strong.The extra speed and distance changed the way softball, especially slow-pitch, had to be played

  • Bat Certification

    Bat Certification
    Softball Association of America regulates softball bats used in ASA Championship Play, which is a tournament from which the winner may advance to higher levels of ASA play.

  • Citations

    Citations
    Kennedy, A. L. (2006, May 26). History of the Softball Bat. LIVESTRONG.COM. Retrieved September 25, 2012, from http://www.livestrong.com/article/361378-history-of-the-softball-bat/
    Alexander, Antoinette. "The History of Softball Bats." EHow. Demand Media, 13 Aug. 2010. Web. 28 Sept. 2012. http://www.ehow.com/about_6863225_history-softball-bats.html.
    Griffin, Sharin. "History of Wooden Softball Bats." LIVESTRONG.COM. N.p., 19 Jan. 2011. Web. 28 Sept. 2012. <http://www.livestrong.com/article/360