The Hoosier Bat Company 3-Piece Bat
What is the difference & Why it is better than a composite bat?
The Hoosier Bat maximizes durability while capitalizing on wood of lesser weight to create bat speed.
This result is accomplished by gluing three separate types of wood together: the twenty-three inch handle of ash, the seven inch barrel or "sweet spot" of hickory (a normal ash bat has a 3-inch sweet spot) and three or four inches of maple on the end.
Each of the parts are grooved so that they interlock to form the complete bat. The bat is then glued together. At its plant, Hoosier uses two machines that the American Society of Mechanical Engineers reported are one of a kind: a special finger jointing machine and an inclined multiton press designed by Industrial Woodworking of Garland, Texas. The glue process is applied while the wood is still in rectangular unfinished form and, after squeezed in the heavy press for 20 seconds, the result is then placed in the lathe for machining into the finished form.
Now you've got the strongest Wood Bat available!
*Can it break? Yes - Should it last longer? Yes!
Unlike ash, hickory is less likely to flake or separate at the grain.
More durability equals less cost
The resulting product has garnered impressive results. Two Hoosier bats are in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. Sammy Sosa used a Hoosier bat when he hit home runs number 64, 65 and 66 in 1998, while Lance Johnson used a Hoosier bat when he collected 200 hits in back-to-back seasons in the American and National Leagues.
"If you don't know how to use a wood bat when you get signed in the major or minor leagues, the chances of you making it are one in a hundred." - Former Yankee scout and Hoosier Bat founder Dave Cook
Like I always say, real hitters train with wood! - Coach JP
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