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Page Excerpt: When I first look at it I thought the bat was not as good everybody said it was but, when I hit ball over 425 ft I couldn't believe it. I have never hit a homerun in batting practice over 350 ft.
Page Excerpt: Hillerich, a woodworker with his father, approached Browning after the game and offered to make him a new bat. They went together to the woodworking shop, selected a piece of white ash and Browning supervised as John Hillerich made his new bat.
Page Excerpt: My son who owns a Techzilla XP, would rather use the Pyrotech XR, and as far as I see right now they are very similar in performence. There is still more testing to be done, living in Michigan with the weather swinging from hot to cold all the time the bat has only seen about 150 hits so far.
They quickly learned that bats with rounded barrels seemed to work the best. Because bats of all shapes and sizes were being used, a rule was made in 1859 that bats could be no larger than 2. 5 inches in diameter, although they could be of any length.