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The Ottawa Citizen Sunday, January 27, 2002 Bonds goes to bat for Holman; Major league bseball’s home run king visits Ottawa batmaker Sam Holman to deliver some personal payback. By Kelly Egan “Sam Holman… was near tears in briefly reviewing the success of his company, The Original Maple Bat Corporation. “Baseball may not know what to do with me, but Barry Bonds certainly does.” “[Barry Bonds] visited the Gatineau mill where the maple was cut, Holman’s house on Bayswater Avenue and the Rochester Street plant…. Known for his mercurial personality, Bonds was consistently charming yesterday. He sounded genuinely awed at...

Report News Magazine – National Edition (Canadian) www.report.ca November 5, 2001 Canadian bats in baseball’s belfry – By Colby Cosh “When Barry Bonds broke the single-season home-run record this fall, he was wielding a bat made in an Ottawa basement.” “- more astonishing even than the superhuman achievements of Babe Ruth, Ted Williams and Mickey Mantle. Most people already know that [Barry Bonds] hit 73 home runs during the season, which is more than anyone has hit, ever, in pro baseball.” “Barry Bonds and about 300 other big-leaguers use bats made by Sam Holman’s Original Maple Bat Co. in Ottawa....

The Star-Ledger The Newspaper for New Jersey Friday, September 22, 2000 Yankees: SamBats are good wood for long flies By Dan Graziano “Glenallen Hill, just arrived via trade from the Chicago Cubs, picked [a new Sam Bat] up and tried it. He liked it. He used it to hit his 10 home runs in August and be named American League Player of the Month.” “…once [major league players] discovered the bats delivered on their promise – not a crack or break or dent the way the old ones did – it was just a matter of feel.”

The New York Times Tuesday, August 29, 2000 Hill’s Power Supply is Made of Maple By Buster Olney “After Glenallen Hill slugged one of the 12 homers he has hit in 81 at-bats since being traded to the Yankees, one of his teammates inspected his bat out of curiosity. What the teammate did not see surprised him: the surface of the bat appeared virtually unscathed. There were no real marks, only a couple of almost unnoticeable indentations. The barrels of most well-worn bats are covered with spots and scrapes from contact. But then, most bats are not like the kind...

The Dallas Morning News dallasnews.com May 3, 2000 Bat Man; Maple bats from small company a hit with players – By Evan Grant “ Rangers clubhouse manager Zack Minasian has been around baseball clubhouses for a dozen years. If there is a piece of baseball equipment to be sold, Minasian has seen it. That’s why Minasian just kind of snickered when coveralled Sam Holman founder …of the Original Maple Bat Corporation presented him with a few of his fledgling company’s bats. “I’ve seen a million of these guys… You think it’s just another fly-by-night operation.”  What Minasian and others around...