Batter up! Turning an aluminum tube into a baseball bat

Author:  K. Cole & E. Lundin, Associate Editors TPJ
Source:  The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 18 / Issue 3, Summer 2004
Doc ID:  2004015
Year of Publication:  2004
Abstract:  
Editor's Note: This article was reprinted with the permission of TPJ - The Tube & Pipe Journal, Official Publication of the Tube & Pipe Association, Int'l., 833 Featherstone Road, Rockford, IL, 61107 The roar of the crowd, the shouts of the umpire, the crack of the bat hitting the ball-these are the unmistakable sounds of a baseball game. Over the last few decades, however, one of those sounds has changed; now the bat tends to make a ping that resonates when it hits the ball. It's the sound of aluminum rather than wood making contact with the ball.