He called me 'Corky': Florida man says he corked baseball bats for Pete Rose in 1984

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He called me 'Corky': Florida man says he corked baseball bats for Pete Rose in 1984.

He called me ‘Corky’: Florida man says he corked baseball bats for Pete Rose in 1984

JUPITER, Fla. — On a quiet cul-de-sac, Bryan Greenberg wades through a gauntlet of tools, bins and paint cans in his standing-room-only garage in search of a baseball relic. Reaching into a corner shelf, he finds it — a Black & Decker power drill, nicked and dented from years of mileage, loosely …

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[DrQ]

There were many stories of how they would "treat" bats by taking a nail gouging out the soft material in the grain of the wood and pack in rosin to make the bat harder.

At some point they will go to aluminum bats. They put lights in Wriggly field, so why not?

 

[pedro47]

There were many stories of how they would "treat" bats by taking a nail gouging out the soft material in the grain of the wood and pack in rosin to make the bat harder.

At some point they will go to aluminum bats. They put lights in Wriggly field, so why not?

I do not feel MLB will ever go to the aluminum bars. The ball will travel to fast for the infielders to catch and the players will be hitting more homeruns. I feel with the aluminum bats in the major league the average player could hit fifty (50) homeruns per year. IMHO.

Pitchers, will be upset because their era will be sky high and they will be given up more hits and homeruns. IMO.

Was Pete Rose the only major league player using corked baseball bats back in the day.? No.

 

[T-Dot-Traveller]

Good article about Canadian ingenuity.