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Video- How Carbon Fiber Bats Are Made
Check out the video below to see how Carbon Fiber bats are made.
OTC Sports Welcomes Combat!
In response to customer demand, OTC Sports is now carrying Combat baseball, fastpitch and slowpitch bats and other gear. Combat has been making great slowpitch bats for several years and now they are also a force in little league baseball and fastpitch softball too! Our initial order has been placed and as soon as we [...]
NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel approves committee action on composite bats
Aug 24, 2009 3:43:21 PM
By Greg Johnson- The NCAA News
The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel approved the NCAA Baseball Rules Committee’s recommendation to remove, at least temporarily, composite bats from NCAA competition. The rules committee proposed the action in July and met again via conference call August 17 after hearing comments from the membership and [...]
New DeMarini Bags- Coming this Fall!
UPDATE January 2010: Voodoo Backpacks are in!
Click here for the DeMarini Voodoo Backpack.
DeMarini has been working on new bags for a year now. Ball players, the R&D team, the Art guys and Yours Truly all had a say in the design and features of these bags. While the process, as they often are was [...]
Moratorium placed on composite bats
By Aaron Fitt-Baseball America
Nestled amidst all the back-patting and reports of cheery economic and academic prospects during the “State of Baseball” news conference prior to the College World Series, NCAA officials revealed their concern over hyper-performing bats. Specifically, bats that used composite barrels tended to demonstrate significantly enhanced “trampoline effect” toward the end of their [...]
Back to the Basics, My Friend!
So you’ve been flat out stinking it up at the plate lately. Your teammates have shared the typical unsolicited advice, you know, all the “don’ts”; don’t over-swing, don’t take your eye off the ball, don’t over-think it, don’t under-think it, don’t screw it up and don’t wash your underwear! You have tried all your reliable [...]
Swing Like a Wild Man!
I first met Ray DeMarini in the early 90’s. Being that we were from the same area, I knew of Ray and I was already using his bat. I say bat, because the Ultimate Weapon was the only DeMarini made at the time. I met him at a tournament. He was half-watching one of our [...]
NCAA Places a Moratorium on Composite Baseball Bats
NCAA Places a Moratorium on Composite Baseball Bats
Below is a memorandum that was recently sent to the bat manufacturers. It has to do with the performance level of composite collegiate baseball bats increasing in performance after use. This is old news in the slowpitch game, where players have been aware of bats “breaking in” almost [...]
