For his first day of work in June 1999, Scott Smith arrived at the makeshift bat factory, a three-level brick corner house in ...

Step into the world of maple wood baseball bat creation, where skilled artisans transform raw wood into a finely crafted masterpiece. The journey begins with selecting the finest maple wood ...

Maple has a tight grain structure and is a harder ... the hardness of the wood transmitted more energy from the bat to the ball than ash. By spring training in 1999, he was drowning in maple ...