Sam Bat Blog — BP Bats

The “ink dot test” for wood is not new, in fact it dates as far back as WWI!  The test was developed to measure the straightness of the grain of hardwoods used for airplane propellers and has been used for decades. The straighter the grain the stronger the wood.  Sam Holman the Founder of SAM BAT is very passionate about aviation and was well aware of the cutting properties necessary to cut a great piece of “bat wood”. Sam took this into consideration when he was creating the first professionally approved maple bat. This special cutting, coupled with the drying process...

The SAM BAT BP Bat has taken the market by storm! Our Sam Bat Team introduced the BP Bat several ago for 2 reasons; firstly to provide a great training tool for players at an unbeatable price, and secondly to educate players that lighter is not always better. We get requests all the time saying that the order needs to be exactly -3, or “do you guys make -4 or -5 bats”?  Sure, we can make that, but at the end of the day you are losing a lot of performance, and a lot of durability with a lighter bat. ...

This is a question at SAM BAT we get every day and frankly it is a great question! Many people think these  maple bats must be ‘better’ or give you some advantage. When Sam created the first pro approved maple bat back in 1997, changing the bat industry, he did a lot of research on the properties of maple. Wood is a natural biomaterial. Mother Nature does not make two maple trees exactly the same. Even within each maple tree there is variation, they may be similar but not exactly the same. Every piece of wood is not the same weight....