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Could MLB Eventually Ban Maple Bats?
bizofbaseball.com - 5/9/2008
Could MLB Eventually Ban Maple Bats?
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Ever since Barry Bonds started using them in 2001, the use of maple bats has been in the rise. Now, a baseball culture icon, Sam Holzman, of Sam Bats, gave Bonds one of the pricey maple bats which run from $65-$75 each, and when he did, it created a wave of players using them. Albert Pujols and Alfonso Soriano are but two others that use maple bats. But, while players say that they can hit ...

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Strange Fruit, Pt. I
Another Cubs Blog — I’m going to give you a few words.  You’ve heard them all before.  Let’s call them Group A. Toolsy.  A great athlete.  Freak.  Stud.  Horse.  Specimen. Got those?  Here’s another list.  You’ve heard these, too.  Let’s call them Group B. Hard worker.  Student of the game.  Crafty.  Clever.  Grinder.  Gamer.  Scrapper. What do these two lists have in common?  To the readers of the sports pages, these words are easily recognizable; they are the nomenclature of sports journalism. In point of fact, we, the sports fans, have even affected them for our own ...

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