With a quiver full of firsts in the evolution of bats in the company’s 50 years of baseball history, expect the arrow-like direction of Easton to continue.

Since the early 1970s, aluminum bats have been a steady diet in youth baseball, high school, colleges ... Ruth is holding a silvery Easton aluminum bat with a bright red handle instead of the ...

Easton, an arrow-making company born in 1922, made one of the first-ever aluminum baseball bats in 1969, but then really took over baseball in 1978 with the launch of the B5 Pro Big Barrel, a 2-5/ ...

The company controls 45% of the aluminum bat market, and Palma believes there’s room to grow Easton’s share to 60% or higher. Wood bats are used primarily by professional players and make up ...

Aluminum bats were introduced to college baseball in the early ’70s to cut down on the rising costs of replacing broken wood bats. ... Easton Typhoon USA Youth Bat.

Ben Birk sounds as if he won the lottery. "I honestly feel lucky," said Birk, a senior pitcher for the Gophers baseball team. "When I think about it, I feel lucky." This was Birk's prize: Lying on ...

Suddenly, after 100 years of specializing in wood bats, Louisville was a major player in the aluminum bat industry. Easton followed with its own improvements, and the war was on.

An Associated Press survey of 24 college coaches found that 17 preferred aluminum bats, ... whose contract calls for him to receive $120,000 a year from Easton. "That being said, aluminum bats are ...

LOS ANGELES (CN) – A teenage pitcher suffered serious head injuries from a ball hit by an “unreasonably dangerous” aluminum baseball bat, he claims in a lawsuit against the bat makers. Cole Schlesner ...

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OMAHA, Neb. -- If coaches at the top U.S. college baseball programs have their way, the ping of the aluminum bat will forever remain a part of the game. According to an Associated Press survey of ...