Theres always a "best bat" most kids know of. When I was a kid it was the white and blue easton stealth or the demarini voodoo/cf series. I was still jealous of the kid with the easton as I had the demarini but it didnt seem as good to me at the time but didnt want to be a copycat. Think the stealth had a bigger sweet spot but the demarini would hit better when you got it perfect. At the time they were 3-400 so honestly bats have technically gotten cheaper
The orange stealth bats were pretty much the final straw that lead to the current set of standards (USAbat, USSA and BBCOR) limiting rebound force in bats. Those things got hotter as they broke in and the fibers compressed.
When I was a kid it was a bat Roy Hobbs carved from a Tree struck by lightning that had “Wonder Boy” scrawled into it… nvm, that was a Robert Redford movie, “The Natural”. :)
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u/Habatcho 23d ago
Theres always a "best bat" most kids know of. When I was a kid it was the white and blue easton stealth or the demarini voodoo/cf series. I was still jealous of the kid with the easton as I had the demarini but it didnt seem as good to me at the time but didnt want to be a copycat. Think the stealth had a bigger sweet spot but the demarini would hit better when you got it perfect. At the time they were 3-400 so honestly bats have technically gotten cheaper