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Good Wood: Companies take great pride in crafting bats out of New England lumber

By Phil ShoreMarch 11, 2019

There's certainly no lack of choice when it comes to wood bats. (Mark Cunningham/MLB Photos via Getty Images)

The start of the baseball season brings back the sound baseball fans swoon for: the crack of the bat. Look it up; there’s a video on YouTube that is over three minutes long about the loudest crack of the bat. A book about the history of baseball on the radio has the title “Crack of the Bat: A History of Baseball on the Road.”

That familiar and famous sound only comes from one source, however: wooden baseball bats.

That sound is just one of a number of reasons to use a wooden bat.

“At the end of the day, Major League Baseball and anything leading to it is using a wood bat,” said Kevin Rothwell of Sam Bat. “To continue being true to the historic nature, if you want to play baseball at the highest level, you should be swinging a wood bat.”

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