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Corked bat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In baseball, a corked bat is a specially modified baseball bat that has been filled with cork or similar light, less dense substances to make the bat lighter without losing much power. A lighter bat...
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Corked bats are illegal in the game of baseball. Yet, the transformed Corked Bat Collection concept now followed every rule. As a glass container in the shape of a regulation adult baseball bat that decants, stores and pours wine, the Corked Bat is ready for the big leagues.
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A batter is out for illegal action when: He uses or attempts to use a bat that, in the umpire's judgment, has been altered or tampered with in such ... McClelland has seen corked bats before; Head2Head: Does this ruin Sosa's image?; Kennedy: Sosa uses corked bat just for BP?; Cubs rally around Sosa, but others not so sure;
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Porter Johnson, a physics professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology, explains. ... In professional baseball, the bat must be made from a single solid piece of wood thus the use of corked bats during games is illegal. Still, corked bats have turned up several times in major league play, most recently by Sammy Sosa.
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The following arguments may be extracted from a reading of Robert Adair's book The Physics of Baseball[1] or from an excerpt from an inverview he gave a few years ago, in which he addresses the issue of corked bats.
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Joe Morgan had been using corked bats in batting practice. After one particular practice, the corked bats were not put back in their proper place. They were left in the dugout. ... It is not illegal to use corked bats in batting practice. And there are some advantages to using them in that setting. So why change?
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Physics are physics: corked bats do NOT produce home runs. ... "corked bats do NOT produce home runs." I'm willing to believe that, but I need to see the physics. I'm more inclined to think that getting the bat around faster DOES help achieve more of a force transfer to the ball thus extending the distance.
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