Why Sam Chose Maple!
Continued from our previous blog post! WHY DID SAM CHOOSE MAPLE? When Sam Holman was first tasked to find a better wood than ash for baseball bats by then Rockies scout Bill McKenzie, he wasn’t quite sure what wood could be better. He was great at working with wood and knew the different characteristics of a lot of wood, but had never tried to make a baseball bat. Sam spent countless hours in the library researching different types of wood from oak, to hickory, to beech, to walnut, and finally to maple. You cannot just use any type of wood...