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(More customer reviews)Bat was great at a great price but was late for my 7 yo's birthday party despite 2 day shipping. BE WARE Amazon automatically requires signature for delivery of items over a certain amount & will not delivery even expedited shipping items.
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Designed for youth league players, the Louisville Slugger YB96M Maverick baseball bat is built for durability and performance. From the earliest days of the game, Louisville Slugger has employed the most powerful technology in the bat business. Back in the days of Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth, that meant putting the most skilled craftsmen at the lathe, where they handcrafted bats to the most demanding specifications of the world's most demanding players. Today, it means applying the latest aerospace technology to bat making, delivering high-tech aluminum, hybrid, and composite bats for youth, high school, college, and senior leagues.
The YB96M bat is made of a C1C composite, which embeds multiple layers of aerospace-grade graphite and S-glass fibers in a specially designed and toughened epoxy resin. The result is a bat with an optimum combination of performance and durability. Other features include a 2-1/4-inch barrel thickness, a Louisville Slugger end cap, a 7/8-inch standard handle with a synthetic grip, and a -11 oz. weight ratio without the grip. Available in lengths ranging from 27 to 31 inches (with weights from 16 to 20 ounces), the YB96M carries a one-year warranty.
About Louisville Slugger In many ways, the rich 120-year history of the Louisville Slugger baseball bat began in the talented hands of 17-year-old John A. "Bud" Hillerich. Bud's father, J.F. Hillerich, owned a woodworking shop in Louisville in the 1880s when Bud began working for him. Legend has it that Bud slipped away from work one afternoon in 1884 to watch the Louisville Eclipse, the town's major league team. After Pete Browning--the Eclipse's star who was mired in a hitting slump--broke his bat, Bud invited him to his father's shop to make a new one. With Browning at his side giving advice, Bud handcrafted a new bat from a long slab of wood. Browning got three hits using the bat the next day. Browning told his teammates, which began a surge of professional ballplayers visiting the Hillerich shop.
Although J.F. Hillerich had little interest in making bats, Bud persisted, eventually registering the name Louisville Slugger with the U.S. patent office in 1894. In the early 1900s, the company was one of the first to use a sports endorsement as a marketing strategy, paying Hall of Famer Honus Wagner to use his name on a bat. By 1923, Louisville Slugger was the selling more bats than any other bat maker in the country, with such famed clients as Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, and Lou Gehrig. In the ensuing years, the company has sold more than 100 million bats, and 60 percent of all Major League players currently use Louisville Sluggers. The company now sells far more than bats, including fielding and batting gloves, helmets, catchers' gear, equipment bags, training aids, and accessories.
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