Louisville Slugger TPX All-Purpose Fungo Baseball Bat: BB11F
Features
2 1/4 Inch Barrel Diameter
7/8 Inch Standard Handle
Grip Tape
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Full Twelve (12) Month Manufacturer's Warranty
One-Piece Aluminum Design
-13 Length to Weight Ratio
Rolled End Cap
Description
Reviews
Average Ratings Based on 5 Customer Reviews
Big Mike
Pros: Light weight, easy to swing. Love the fact that it is an aluminum bat.
Cons: None
WallyN
Pros: Great Coaches Bat! Great for Little League coaching since everything gets tossed in the car and this can handle the abuse. Easy to swing.
Cons: It goes Tink instead of crack.
Coach Rob
Pros: Extremely light and easy to swing. This bat makes the long practices hitting ground ball after ground ball doable.
Cons: None so far.
Coach C
Pros: Has good pop, easy on my ARM
Cons:
My Fungo
Pros: Great bad. Couldn't be happier. Hard a wood fungo before and this is lighter and easier to use when you have to hit a lot to your players.
Cons: None
Questions and Answers
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Can this fungo be used for both OF & IF work? Scribe
Can this bat also be used for hitting softballs? Coach Mack
About the Brand
In 1842, J. Frederick Hillerich emigrated with his family from Baden-Baden, Germany to the United States. Eight years before, the 1834 Book of Sports had made its debut as the nation's first publication covering baseball. But when he arrived in Baltimore, J. Frederick Hillerich would never have dreamed of the future impact his family would have on America's favorite pastime.
After a short while, the Hillerichs moved to Louisville, where J. Fred started a woodworking shop in 1856. Two of his sons, Adam and John Andrew "Bud" were born in the United States and would later join their father in his business. By 1864 "J.F. Hillerich, Job Turning" was in operation and filled orders for businesses by custom-turning everything from balusters to bedposts.
The firm thrived, and by 1875 the little woodworking shop employed about 20 people. In 1880 Bud Hillerich, who was an amateur baseball player, became an apprentice in his father's shop. Young Bud made his own baseball bats along with bats for several of his teammates.
The debate over the origins of the first bat continues to generate controversy among baseball enthusiasts, but the younger Hillerich was most certainly involved in getting his father's business involved with what would become the company's signature item. According to company legend, the first bat was turned by Bud for Pete "The Old Gladiator" Browning in 1884. Browning was a star on Louisville's professional American Association team - the Eclipse. On a spring afternoon Bud, then seventeen, witnessed Browning break his favorite bat. Bud offered to make a bat for his hero, and Browning accepted. After the young wood shop apprentice lathed a quality stick from white ash, according to the story, Browning got three hits with it in the next game.
Louisville Slugger gloves are worn by more pitchers in Major League Baseball than any other glove.
Bat Properties
Barrel Diameter | 2 1/4 |
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Baseball Bats | Training |
Bat Type | Baseball |
Deals | Bundle and Save |
Length to Weight Ratio | -13 |
Material | Aluminum |
Vendor | Louisville Slugger |
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