Broken bats of cricket and baseball

http://www.geo.arizona.edu/~andyf/Twins%20Broken%20Bat.jpg

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39358000/jpg/_39358369__chmo2.jpg

http://files.smellybean.com:8080/WedOct04090638CDT20064705958663673bat.jpg

ok, that bat isn't broken, but that dude's jaw is.

http://homerderby.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/carlos-zambrano-breaks-a-baseball-bat.jpg

Answer = 'roids, obviously

Roids and the traditionally limp wrists one finds in the UK, Australasia, and Indian sub-continent.

I left that part out.

caek, those first and third pictures are like a Hieronymus Bosch painting or Hogarth's "Gin Lane" or something...

http://espn-i.starwave.com/media/apphoto/16aa20d5-d0ea-4067-9360-e46a0c4ff133.jpg

are there any articles abt that 'bat out of hell' pic? i would like to interview every single person in it including the little girl in pink. idk considering the ubiquitousness of that photo i would not be surprised if like maxim or some shit had done this...

I'm more amazed by the skill of the photographer. How the hell did he capture that so perfectly?

(xxpost) johnny, that bat didn't break - he ate it, like a big chicken drumstick.

gotta be a still from a high speed film, right?

http://www.looptvandfilm.com/blog/clemens2.jpg

what is happening in that last one?

Piazza was involved in a bizarre incident in Game 2 of the 2000 World Series. In the first inning, Piazza was facing Yankees pitcher Roger Clemens and broke his bat fouling off a pitch. The barrel of his bat flew towards Clemens's feet at the pitcher's mound. Clemens picked up the broken barrel and heaved it in the direction of Piazza running up the first base line sparking both benches to clear, but with no ejections.

aka clemenz being a bitchass toolbag

I can't speak for cricket, but baseball bats are increasingly slim at the base to get the weight down and concentrate the weight in the head, and when you throw a pitch at 90mph with a lot of inward movement, it will shatter a bat like that very easily. 10-20 years ago you didn't see the same frequency of broken bats that you do now.

Also, I don't think it helps that minor league baseball players hit with aluminum bats, and get accustomed to driving pitches you just can't hit with a wooden bat without fracturing it.

gotta be a still from a high speed film, right?

http://www.canon.co.uk/For_Home/Product_Finder/Cameras/Digital_SLR/EOS_1D_Mark_III/index.asp

"10 fps, 110 frame burst
The camera delivers 10 frames per second for a continuous burst of up to 110 Large JPEGs or 30 RAW images."

minor league baseball players use wooden bats

but college, high school, legion and everyone else uses aluminum

I guess there's nothing really like this in baseball:

http://www.vks.com/cricket_bat_care.htm

serious business: http://www.abcofcricket.com/Article_Library/art47/art48/art48.htm

my bat is about 80% willow and 20% this stuff: http://i31.twenga.com/3/tp/05/07/170740507.png

by mass, not surface area : (

owning a cricket bat seems like a neat useless thing to have (as an american)

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y143/gracielevine/GraceasShaunoftheDead.jpg

http://blog.makezine.com/283605870_832c92c006.jpg

http://www.showcase.ca/BLOG/photos/tv/images/24670/original.aspx

I can't really imagine someone heating up linseed oil and rubbing it into a baseball bat. Or doing the string-and-glue thing to repair a split handle.