What is bat-boning?
Professional players have been boning their wood bats for decades. It's a legal process where a hard object is rubbed on the barrel of a bat to compress the wood grain. Traditionally, players use a bone. This makes the hitting surface of your bat harder and more durable, which can result in balls being hit farther and bats lasting longer. Get that extra distance on your long ball and keep your bat from flaking apart after countless BP sessions.
Bat-boning then and now
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Bat-boning has been around for a long time in professional baseball. It's a common clubhouse practice that the average baseball fan might not be aware of. Old timers like Ruth, Di Maggio and Shoeless Joe were known to do it. Even Roy Hobbs in The Natural talked about boning his bat, Wonderboy, so it wouldn't chip.
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Now days, not much has changed as players are still looking for that extra edge to improve their batting average. In a professional baseball clubhouse you can still find players passing around a bone or see old cow femurs bolted to the walls or tables.
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Bat boning is even recognized as a valuable conditioning process by some of the major wood bat manufacturers as they do a factory boning process before packaging and shipping their bats.
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With The Original Yardbone, now players can keep their own personal bat bone in their locker or bag, or share it throughout the dugout and clubhouse.
