Garcia will be competing all summer long
as a member of the Auburn Wildcats, a college
wooden -
bat league baseball team that plays its home games at James Field in Auburn.
What the
bat is made of has little effect, the team found,
as the calculations for aluminum
bats did not differ significantly from those for
wooden ones.
As a result, a ball colliding with a wooden bat, such as the replica of Babe Ruth's Louisville Slugger (below), loses more of its initial kinetic energ
As a result, a ball colliding with a
wooden bat, such
as the replica of Babe Ruth's Louisville Slugger (below), loses more of its initial kinetic energ
as the replica of Babe Ruth's Louisville Slugger (below), loses more of its initial kinetic energy.