Sam Bat Maple Wood Baseball Bat: KB1 Natural Adult
Features
Turning Model: 271
2 1/2 Inch Barrel Diameter
Natural Finish
Approximate -2 to -3 Length to Weight Ratio
Handle: 29/32 Inch Diameter
Flared Knob
Made From Top 5% of Hard Maple Prime Grade Timber
Retains 100% of the Maple's Natural Hardness
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Description
Reviews
Average Ratings Based on 10 Customer Reviews
Pros: Really hard maple.All around quality. Like with any wood bat ya got to hit it well. When you do you will like the results of the Kb1.
Cons: The obvious wood bat cons. Nothing out of the norm.
Pros: Sweet bat...
Cons:
Pros: This is a very good durable balanced bat. As many other customers, I was a bit skeptical when purchasing the bat, especially whether it would be balanced or not. After buying this bat, there was no looking back. Its balanced very well and the flared know allows for a little bit of weight to reside in there rather than the barrel. The barrel size if also especially good in comparison to the handle and knob. It's got some great pop with that natural wood bat "crack" hitters like to hear. If your looking into get a Sam Bat that is balanced, get this. If not, go for a Marucci.
Cons: At first may feel a little bit barrel-heavy but its not.
Pros: Sick bat. Really solid wood. Not much flew. Good for power.
Cons: Classic wood bat cons.
Pros: I have this bat in the black/stained handle version. I have used an M9 and Marucci AP5 before this, and this is my favorite. Very nicely balanced, very hard maple, good pop on the sweet spot. I have hit a few off the handle and no breakage yet. I really like this feel of this bat.
Cons: None
Pros: This is simply the best maple bat made. It is well balanced, rock solid, and truly professional grade. For serious players this is a must have!
Cons: None.
Pros: Great bat, had good pop, and great feel, very durable lasted over a year with lots of hits
Cons: None
Pros: Excellent feel Best pop I've seen out of a Maple Beautiful finish and look My personal favorite of all high end bats. As durable as it gets for Maple.
Cons: Nothing except the general durability issues that come with a wood bat.
Pros: poppy, balanced,
Cons: nothing, its better than my easton surge (2011) best bat on the market, buy it
Pros: Great pop and balance. Big barrel but has a light feel to it that lets you manipulate the barrel easily. Best bat I've ever owned, and it looks great.
Cons: none
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About the Brand
Sam Bat grew out of careful research and a thorough knowledge of eastern hardwoods. It also developed from a simple question by Bill MacKenzie, then of the Colorado Rockies: "We're just breaking too many bats. Do you think you could come up with an answer to that?" The solution was fairly obvious. But the answer led to a pile of work and a crash course on bats. The reading list ranged from "The Physics of Baseball", "The Rules of Major League Baseball", "219 Patents on Baseball Bats" to "The Trees of Canada, Standard Handbook for Civil Engineers". There was also the search for wood which, for carvers and lovers of wood is never ending..
Living in and near Ottawa was a huge advantage in developing the Sam Bat concept. It's a researcher's dream centre: home of the Canadian patent library, two first rate universities, the Wood Council, the Canadian Forest Research Centre, the National and other extensive Libraries - all in the centre of the richest deciduous forest of North America.
However, sifting through the mountains of information - especially reading 219 U.S. patents - was painfully tedious. Perhaps Sam Bat hadn't been invented because no one had ever had the heart to turn one after this task. In fact, simply going by patent law, ash would be the only choice.
Developing the business end was also time-consuming. Then there was the task of translating maple (a much more dense wood than ash) into a workable model with the accepted range of bat lengths and weights. One thing was sure: Sam Bat were determined to come up with a line of bats that would be more than adequate to deal with the needs of major league baseball.
Designed and Produced in Canada
The Original Maple Bat Corporation began operations in February 1997, and is located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Our corporate purpose is to introduce a new wooden baseball bat to Major League Baseball. Since our first year we have come a long way to achieving this goal. Since prototype testing in 1996 we realized that we had a bat that was tougher and will last longer than the ash bat traditionally in use. It is our goal to provide the best maple we can buy for use in our Sam Bats.
Canadian Maple
We make our bats from sap and better Canadian maple, the best grade available. It is kiln dried to a moisture content of 7% - 9%. The specific gravity is 63%. The selection of sugar maple allows us to model our bats extremely close to other wood bats. We are familiar with most models of wooden bats that are commonly in use.
Sam Bat: The Logo
You don't fool around with the word bat – baseball or otherwise – without a fair amount of fun. It was kitchen table nonsense talk of the first order: about a natural sense of radar and, of course, about the idea itself: "It flies!" It led to the need for a symbol. If the name was to be Sam Bat, there seemed only one conclusion: it had to be a picture of the "little devil" itself.
Artist Nathan Holman, Sam's brother, came up with the bat design over the phone one evening to Sam. He said he'd put it on paper right away. It was a good design: clean and simple. Nathan's bat picture (with wonkey eyes cut out by Nathan's daughter, Laura) remained the same. Its strong, unique design should be visible from the furthest bleachers – or the smallest living room TV. More than attractive, it gives Sam Bat its new and youthful identity as what will undoubtedly be dubbed the best baseball bat in the world.
The Challenge...
From the beginning, there was no question about their market. They knew they would come up with a standard that would be universal to baseball, starting with the big leagues. The result is one of the prettiest and yet meanest baseball bats in the world. We suggest to the professional player that they provide us with a profile of a bat he is currently using. Yes, it can have a crack. We will turn a Sam Bat that he will use and enjoy.
We dare anyone to challenge this the only way that really counts: by putting Sam Bat to the test.
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