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Page Excerpt: They went together to the woodworking shop, selected a piece of white ash and Browning supervised as John Hillerich made his new bat. The next day, Browning went three for three with the new bat, word spread about the new bats, and the Hillerich family was in the baseball bat business.
Page Excerpt: In the 1850's baseball was an extremely young sport and batters made their own bats and experimented with bats of all varieties . They quickly learned that bats with rounded barrels seemed to work the best.
Page Excerpt: The ball jumps off this bat and carries very well. 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.
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. Ten years later in 1869, another rule was added that stated the baseball bat could be no longer than 42 inches in length - the same maximum length allowed today.
