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#ICYMI - Baseball - Home Run Physics

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The Differences Between a Thick Bat and an Aluminum Bat

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The thickness of a handle probably doesn't matter very much but it does matter for balls hit off a sweet spot. The softer wood is going to vibrate more than the harder wood. Nowadays I think you have ash versus maple. Maple I think is harder than ash. But the people have done really really careful studies trying to compare the performance of ash to maple in terms of the ultimate exit speed.

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