Sam Bats are the Original Maple Bats
6/1/2013-
SAM BAT grew out of a simple challenge. During an evening at Ottawa’s Mayflower Pub, Bill Mackenzie, a professional league scout and friend of Sam Holman said, “We’re just breaking too many (ash) bats. Do you think you could come up with an answer to that?” After researching tree species, reading hundreds of patents, and studying the physics and rules of baseball, Sam, whose creativity, craftsmanship and eye for detail had been honed through years of work as a stagehand at the National Arts Centre, believed he had an answer: Maple.
“I knew I wasn’t going to make a better ash tree.” Maple is harder and denser and doesn’t flake from use. Not any maple tree will do. Only rock maple with straight grain and minimal flaws can withstand the forces created when bat meets ball. From day one Sam has insisted on using the best wood.
In 1996 Sam crafted his first bat in the garage of his Ottawa home from a maple stair banister. He took the bat down to the Ottawa Lynx Stadium where it was used to launch a ball out of the park. Sam was told, “If you want to keep that bat, you had better put your name on it.” Thus the name “SAM BAT” was born.
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