The bat is not a toy, it's a weapon. It gives me everything in life, which helps me to do everything on the field.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Your bat is your life. It's your weapon. You don't want to go into battle with anything that feels less than perfect.
I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.
It makes no difference to me what kind of bat I have. For instance, I often grab the first bat I come across when I go up to the plate. Muggsy McGraw uses a light stick and Jake Stenzel uses a heavy one, but I'm liable to take any one of the miscellaneous lot that falls in my way.
I don't need to practice my swing. I grew up with a bat in my hands.
Are you tall? Are you strong? How big are your hands? You must be honest with yourself or you will end up using the wrong bat.
When you bat, you need to have a lot of patience. I started training for it from the age of eight or nine. So, I knew what I needed when I stepped on the field to bat.
Used to be bats had thick handles and a big barrel. Then they found it's not the size of the bat that gets home runs - it's the speed with which you can swing it.
The only thing I do to my bat is put some tape around the handle to build it up a little bit because I broke my finger about six years ago and can't really close it the way I want to. Other than that, the same bat, same Louisville Sluggers.
I grew up on the softball field. Every day I would take my glove and my bat with me.
You know, when I was a young boy I used to play baseball in my back yard or in the street with my brothers or the neighborhood kids. We used broken bats and plastic golf balls and played for hours and hours.