Baseball Equipment

Here are all of the articles about baseball equipment.

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  How Are Metal Baseball Bats Made?

  Aluminum bats are essentially metal tubes. The first step in making them involves a process called taper drawing, in which the aluminum tube is put onto a tapered mandrel (a tool for shaping metal) and then forced through a die.
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  Baseball Gloves

  A baseball glove is a vital piece of equipment used by defensive players to catch and control the baseball. Made of material such as leather with soft wool padding, the modern baseball glove is a far cry from those first worn back in the late 1860s when gloves first appeared.
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  What Is the Size of a Baseball?

  Regulation baseballs are made according to very strict standards. The balls include cork, wool, cotton-polyester and leather. The composition of a baseball has evolved since the size and weight became standardized in 1872.
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  Baseball Field Equipment

  Baseball field equipment is an important part of America's favorite pastime. It is used to protect players, crowds and umpires; and it enhances the game. All of the following equipment pieces are vital in baseball and help keep the game safe and fun for all.
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  How Are Baseball Bats Made?

  Baseball bats begin as a piece of wood called a split, a piece of wood that is no more than 42 inches long weighing about 3 pounds. Bats can be made from oak, ash, and maple wood. A mill worker then shaves the rough edges off a split with an automatic lathe.
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  What Are Baseball Bats Made Of?

  Baseball bats are composed of either wood or metal. Different types of wood are used today to make baseball bats, as opposed to in the past when ash was almost exclusively the wood of choice for their production.
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  What Kind of Wood Are Baseball Bats Made Of?

  Baseball, the all-American sport created by Alexander Cartwright, dates to the 1800s. Until 1858, when the first major league formed, however, baseball was only for informal and local-team play. Up until then, players created their own bats, some of them flat, others round.
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  What Kind of Wood Were Baseball Bats Originally Made Of?

  There are few sports more American than baseball and few items more iconic in sports than the baseball bat. It has become a part of the larger American culture, as anyone who's seen enough gangster movies can attest to.
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  Baseball Rules and Regulations

  Baseball is commonly referred to in the media as "America's Pastime," and it has been played in the United States since the 1800s. The game involves hitting a pitched ball and trying to score more runs than the other team.
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  Rules & Equipment for Basketball

  Today, basketball is a major professional indoor sport, as well as an outdoor neighborhood activity joined in by people of all experience levels. However, the game itself is over 100 years old, first invented in 1891 by James Naismith, a clergyman, teacher and doctor from Canada.
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  Drill Press Tips

  A drill press is a useful item, but usually found only in the workshops of the more serious do-it-yourselfers and commercial workshops. A drill press is used to drill evenly spaced, accurately angled holes through materials.
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  How to Design Your Own Baseball Jersey

  Designing your own baseball jersey doesn't have to be a hard process, but for some reason many teams seem to have problems with it. Actually, some would say professional teams suffer that fate as well.
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  How to Clean Baseball Uniforms Made of Polyester

  Baseball uniforms are made of polyester, a strong fabric that can stand the punishment of sliding into home plate just before the catcher can tag the player out. They get filled with mud and grass stains, not to mention perspiration, so it is important to know how to get them really clean.
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  How to Make a Wooden Baseball Bat

  If you're a baseball fan and love working with your hands, then making your own baseball bat probably sounds like a lot of fun. Though the project can be tricky, all you really need is some moderate lathing skills to get the job done.
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  How to Cork a Baseball Bat

  Long before steroids and performance-enhancing drugs came on the scene in professional baseball, corking bats was one of the preferred cheating methods of Major League Baseball players. Corking a baseball bat involved hollowing out a portion of the solid wood barrel of a bat and replacing it with cork.
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  How to Choose a Baseball Glove

  There are many factors that need to be considered when choosing a baseball glove. The age of the ballplayer, the type of material the glove is made from, the way the baseball glove is constructed and what position on the field the wearer is going to play must all be taken into account.