The bat originally belonged to Bob Feller, who was the Cleveland pitcher that day and who offered Ruth the bat to use.

That bat now belongs to the Australian Museum collection in Canberra.

The big bat in the cleanup spot belongs to third baseman Eric Chavez, who has 31 home runs, 97 R.B.I. and an 11-game hitting streak.

The only right-handed bat in the lineup belonged to Gooden.

Extant bats of Puerto Rico belong to five families (Noctilionidae, Mormoopidae, Phyllostomidae, Vespertilionidae, and Molossidae) and include a total of 13 species, of which six subspecies are endemic to the archipelago.

Rivera wrecks bats all the time, but what was unusual this time is that the bats belonged to right-handed hitters - irrefutable evidence of a major alteration Rivera made in spring training, the introduction of a sinking fastball.

He claimed that the bat in question belonged to another player (whom he would not name).

The loudest bat belonged to Bo Jackson, the Royals' left fielder who moonlights as the Oakland Raiders' halfback.

The giant bat six stories high in front of the Louisville Slugger Museum doesn't belong to Mark McGwire (he favors a Rawlings).