Product Description

This 26" Ash Wood bat has a Natural Finish with a standard bat end.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1814 in Sports & Outdoors
• Brand: Louisville Slugger
• Model: MLB225YB
• Released on: 2009-01-08

Features

• Maple wood bat designed for youth league players
• Extremely dense construction offers a greater surface hardness than ash
• Less prone to flaking than ash bat, adding to durability
• Natural finish; shorter and lighter than adult bats
• Available in 26-, 27-, 28-, 29-, 30-, and 31-inch lengths

Amazon.com Product Description
Don't make the mistake of thinking all wood bats are the same. They may look similar, but the quality of the wood is very different from one wood bat company to another. Louisville Slugger, however, sets itself apart from other bat makers with more than 120 years of bat-making experience, outstanding turning models, and access to the best-quality wood on the market. The MLB225YB youth bat, for instance, is made of high-quality maple, an extremely dense timber with a greater surface hardness than ash. Maple is a closed-grain timber with a structure similar to the layer in a laminated product. This makes the bat less prone to flaking than an ash bat--meaning it will snap in half upon breaking rather than splintering--resulting in a safer, more durable product. Some players also believe that maple's hardness gives them a better overall performance.

The MLB225YB bat is designed specifically for youth league players, with a shorter length and lighter weight than adult bats.

Bat Specifications

• Wood: Maple
• Finish: Natural
• Length: 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, or 31 inches

Note: The biggest factors that influence the life of a wood bat are the quality of wood and where the ball hits your bat. Until you gain experience hitting with wood bats, however, don't be surprised if you break a lot of bats. Unlike with aluminum bats, when you hit a ball along the handle or at the end of a wood bat, you may break the bat rather than get a hit. It takes a lot of practice, but with work, you will find that you break fewer bats and become a much better hitter.

About Louisville Slugger
In many ways, the rich 120-year history of the Louisville Slugger baseball bat began in the talented hands of 17-year-old John A. "Bud" Hillerich. Bud's father, J.F. Hillerich, owned a woodworking shop in Louisville in the 1880s when Bud began working for him. Legend has it that Bud slipped away from work one afternoon in 1884 to watch the Louisville Eclipse, the town's major league team. After Pete Browning--the Eclipse's star who was mired in a hitting slump--broke his bat, Bud invited him to his father's shop to make a new one. With Browning at his side giving advice, Bud handcrafted a new bat from a long slab of wood. Browning got three hits using the bat the next day. Browning told his teammates, which began a surge of professional ballplayers visiting the Hillerich shop.

Although J.F. Hillerich had little interest in making bats, Bud persisted, eventually registering the name Louisville Slugger with the U.S. patent office in 1894. In the early 1900s, the company was one of the first to use a sports endorsement as a marketing strategy, paying Hall of Famer Honus Wagner to use his name on a bat. By 1923, Louisville Slugger was the selling more bats than any other bat maker in the country, with such famed clients as Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, and Lou Gehrig. In the ensuing years, the company has sold more than 100 million bats, and 60 percent of all Major League players currently use Louisville Sluggers. The company now sells far more than bats, including fielding and batting gloves, helmets, catchers' gear, equipment bags, training aids, and accessories.

Customer Reviews

Nothing like the sound of wood.
The look on my son's face when I gave him this bat for this birthday was simply awesome. The sound of the wooden bat and the feel of a solid hit seemed more natural and authentic. I went to a large sports store and little league bats ranges from $24 up to over $300. I thought, "How ridiculous!" as I bought the $25 DeMartini. It lasted like two games and it had broke. It looked nice for those two games, but he hit farther with the wooden bat. If it breaks I will buy another in a heart beat.

exelent bat
exelent bat, I bougth for mi soon, he is happy with his new bat,good quality like all louisville products, he is hitting harder than a aluminum bat, hits the ball far away.

Great Starter Bat
More weight than an aluminum bat, so those forearms and biceps and triceps and deltoids develop better, and affordable enough to buy more if it actually breaks. In fact, you can buy several of these for the price of most respectable aluminum bats...

BATTER UP!!!