I really hope their testing and QA methodology was better than letting a bunch of twelve year-olds take a handful of cuts in a batting cage. No mention of anything more rigorous than that, in TFA.

It’s the unbreakable wooden bat, at least one that is guaranteed for a year.

So IOW, its breakable.

So IOW, its breakable.

Well, they call what they do to your hair a "perm", so...

Major League Baseball would have to test the bats and approve them before they could be used in big league games.

Not only that but they would have to change the rules since the Crawford bat made all composite bats illegal.


As for the unbreakable part. The company guarantees the bat stay in one piece for a year, if it doesn't it replaces it for fre.

What I don't understand is why isn't there an effort to engineer metal bats that perform more like wood bats? Make a bat with a smaller sweet spot and a weight that is more like a wooden bat. I realize that it wouldn't be used in the majors, but top amateur players could use them. They already spend a fortune on metal bats.

I don't think I have ever broken a bat.

I don't think I have ever broken a bat.

Then you've never made contact with a fastball on the inside corner.

Then you've never made contact with a fastball on the inside corner.

Or he's never played organized ball with a wooden bat, which is probably true of at least half the guys who post here.

I used wood my first year of Little League, but from there forward it was strictly metal/aluminum/whatever the hell they made Eastons out of in the 1980s.

We use wood at and above the high school level. We always broke a good half dozen a summer.

I used two wooden bats in Little League. The first one died when I hit a sweet pitch right off the bottom of the trademark. I heard the "crack", but it sounded a lot more sickly than usual. I saw the line drive that was destined to fly over the shortstop and into the left-center field gap instead travel about fifty-five feet in the air and then die in the grass just past the pitcher's mound, turning into just another 6-3.

It was disappointing to say the least.

A long time ago in Colt League (15-16 year olds), I liked to use Jackie Robinson or Nellie Fox model bats. Those would have been pretty hard to break.

But it can be done (of course.) My older brother cracked one of those thick-handled Jackie R. models in Babe Ruth league, hitting a fastball near the end of the bat. However, with abundant friction tape added, that stick performed reasonably well for several more years.