Today we’re trying out a couple bats from American Batsmith’s new Vintage Collection – these bats replicate the exact turn model, wood species, and weight/length of the bats used by Babe Ruth, Shoeless Joe Jackson, Jackie Robinson, Honus Wagner, Mickey Mantle, and a few others.
We’re gonna see if these ancient wood bats can perform with a high-end maple wood bat from the modern-era!
BBCOR/USSSA bat rankings: https://baseballbatbros.com/
Bat Bros Merch: https://routine.com/collections/the-baseball-bat-bros-merch
Our exit velo tracking unit (Rapsodo 3.0 Pro): https://rapsodo.com/pages/baseball-player-development-tools?utm_source=Partnership&utm_medium=YouTube&utm_campaign=Baseball+Bat+Bros
The baseballs we use: https://www.amazon.com/CHAMPRO-Collegiate-Specifications-Leather-Baseball/dp/B014NX75IY?ref_=ast_sto_dp
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“Shoeless” Joe Jackson got his nickname because in fact he did play one 7:09 game without shoes or cleats because they were new and too tight for his feet. He hated the nickname.
Guy can crush it.
This was really fun to watch, thx for doing it.
Several examples and statements you made contradict information that has circulated for decades from numerous sources. I have no doubt to your research but it would be interesting to know the sources for a comparison. Babe Ruth’s bat is the best example, it’s listed (several places) as 36” long and 44.6 once’s. One unusual bat you omitted was Lou Gehrig’s bat, 35.5” long and 41.5 once’s. I know you had dozens of candidates to choose from but these 2 men probably should have been near or at the top of the list.
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Beautiful swing…. How about the sound at contact when you were swinging those telephone poles 🤣👍
There's some video of Honus Wagner taking ground balls in his 60's, and he was STILL built like a brick shithouse‼️
Also have to take into account the advantage that pitchers used to have before they adjusted the mounds for more action. Also they used different balls. The balls today are “bouncier” so they travel further. Again for more action.
I think babes bat in his most successful season (1921) was 48 oz war club⚾⚾⚾⚾⚾⚾⚾⚾⚾
Could you imagine Babe Ruth's swing speed if he switched to 33 or 34 ounce?!?!?!?! Man was built different
People talk shit about the Babe not being good today. But his bat dwarfs today's bats. Today would have access to every advancement would probably be even better.
Not going to lie. Was gritting my teeth a little when you went shoeless expecting you to foul a ball off your toes. Also classy finish with the leftie homer.
Negro league star Mule Suttles is said to have used a 50-ounce bat.
Hilarious 💯
They were throwing harder than 70 mph, you just made that up
Did the fact that the bats back then were old growth wood, so more dense, alter how they hit enough to notice?
The Bambino's even sounds the same.
Real man bats
Guts could swing those bats
"Good piece of Ash" 🥵
Digging the history of bats, but my question is, when Babe was playing, or Honus, what was the average pitch speed? How much of a difference would that make?
How do we get these bats?
403ft my asssssss
To think Ruth was hitting 500ft+ bombs with a bat like that is crazy
For my 12th BD in 1974 I got a 34 oz Louisville slugger, I wasn’t a good hitter, maybe I know why now, LOL
This was actually a very fascinating video for baseball fans, kinda puts the early days of baseball into greater context in terms of what players had to do compared to today. Excellent video bros.
Cool video. My dad graduated high school in '67 and told me that his high school ordered 2 bats for every player on varsity. My dad chose the Al Kaline bat as that was his favorite player
6:58 that’s what she said
Babe's was 52-54 ounces
Where's the Mark McGuire 70oz 'Roid Hammer 7000'? 😂
Just kidding, I guess he swung a 33 ouncer.
Someone mentioned Ken Griffey Jr., but I came to comment about him so I will still do so. And what i was going to say, was that if he never suffered all the injuries he did throught his career, Ken Griffey Jr. would have been the first person ever to create/make it to the 800 club, absolutely zero doubt in my mind. He literally still ended his career with 630 HR's, and if he didnt reach 800 for some odd reason, he would have at VERY LEAST broke, and still be holding the all time HR record, even over Bonds, or Hank Aaron for those of you that dont count Bonds because of his steroid use (which is absurd, since steroids dont magically teach you how to properly swing and hit a baseball lmao)