“The same bat design has been in existence for a century and a half, maybe,” says Alan Nathan, professor emeritus of physics at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “And to come up with ...

"And to come up with something new, to me, is always very exciting ... according to the Louisville Slugger Museum. Babe Ruth used this bat to hit his first home run in Yankee Stadium in 1923 ...

(Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images ... switched from a maple Louisville Slugger to a birch bat and cited MLB's 2010 rule ...

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