These bats last 15 times longer than a normal wood bat.

"No, the wood bat is tougher to get started and tougher to control."

"If you're a good baseball player, you should be able to hit with the wood bat," he said.

Next year, all North Dakota high school games will be played with wood bats.

If you hit the ball on the handle with a wood bat, it's a groundout to short.

It takes a big, strong man to poke one out with a wood bat.

Using wood bats forced him to take a shorter stroke, to be quick to the ball and keep it on the barrel.

He worked out with a wood bat for major league teams after the high school season, which ended just a few weeks before the draft.

The games are played as baseball was meant to be, with 100% wood bats.

The movement within college baseball to return exclusively to wood bats took a swing in that direction yesterday.