Louisville Slugger 2012 TPX BB12W (-3) Warrior BBCOR Baseball Bat

Friday, March 23, 2012

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ASIN: B005DJMSGC

Item model number: TPX-BB1-SIZ

By : Louisville Slugger
Price : $86.95 - $109.99

Product Description

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Designed for high school and college players, the Louisville Slugger Warrior baseball bat combines serious durability with high 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 Warrior bat is made from a tough 7050 aluminum alloy. The material is extremely durable and crack-resistant, making it ideal for heavy rotation use. Other features include a 2-5/8-inch barrel, a 31/32-inch tapered handle with a synthetic grip, and a -3 weight-to-length ratio (without the grip). Available in 30- to 34-inch lengths, the Warrior bat meets all high school BBCOR bat standards. Each Louisville Slugger bat comes with an industry-best one-year warranty.
About Louisville SluggerIn 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.
TPX Louisville Slugger BB12W -3 Warrior meets all BBCOR bat standards and provides the player with a high performance alloy in 7050 at a great value. The TPX Warrior BBCOR bat provides a large sweet spot, and a balanced swing weight for great player performance. Good performance, great value.