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Read more about RealStoriesMN: The Max Bat Story

RealStoriesMN: The Max Bat Story

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CAAPDdLxLU As a woodworking hobbyist and a longtime baseball lover, Jim Anderson wanted a fun way to honor the birth of his first child. So, after seeing an ad for trophy bats in a mail order catalog, he decided to make one of his own.   "My friend and I made this bat," he said. "We had no idea what we were doing but were both intrigued by the process of turning something out of wood."   But something about the bat didn't look right. "I knew it would look weird i

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• mdewolf18
• April 11, 201610 yr

Read more about RealStoriesMN: That Time Bud Selig Wanted to Ban Maple Bats

RealStoriesMN: That Time Bud Selig Wanted to Ban Maple Bats

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCJJTFeKXSo   Play-by-play guys and color commentators have an important job. For many, they are the trusted source of information when watching a baseball game on TV, or listening on the radio.   It's only natural that you'd expect the things they say to be true. But occasionally they get it wrong. And sometimes, they get it really wrong.   When Jim Anderson, founder of MAX Bats, heard Dick Bremer and Bert Blyleven opine against the use of maple bats during one o

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• mdewolf18
• April 7, 201610 yr