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Sam Holman revolutionized bats with a new kind of wood: Maple
For his first day of work in June 1999, Scott Smith arrived at the makeshift bat factory, a three-level brick corner house in ...
Maple hardwood, the very foundation of the Final Four, is ingrained with basketball’s rich history
The maple hardwood that makes up the courts at the men's and women's Final Four is part of basketball's foundation.
Long before torpedo bats, the maple bat craze took over baseball
In the late 1990s, an Ottawa man changed bat technology with the creation of maple bats. Soon, almost every major leaguer ...
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Maple hardwood, the very foundation of the Final Four, is ingrained with basketball's rich history
That wood – hard maple – is a thread connecting seemingly everything in basketball. Big shots. Epic games. Crushing losses. The highest levels of NBA and international play, through college ...
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Final Four courts ingrained with maple hardwood, basketball's history
That wood – hard maple – is a thread connecting seemingly everything in basketball. Big shots. Epic games. Crushing losses. The highest levels of NBA and international play, through college and down ...