When Hall of Famer Sam Crawford unveiled his revolutionary new bat, some of baseball’s biggest stars quietly began swinging it — including Babe Ruth during one of the hottest stretches of his career. But as home runs piled up and controversy spread across the league, baseball’s power brokers stepped in to decide whether the bat was an innovation… or something the sport could not allow.
🕵️ Inside The Original Newspaper Coverage you’ll learn:
The unusual way the bat was built
Why Babe Ruth reportedly kept using the bat until Ban Johnson intervened.
Which other baseball legends experimented with the bat before it was outlawed.
🕵️ Replay Today: May 21, 1966
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A struggling young Yankee fireballer seemed to have found a turnaround tool
A’s pitchers struggle with Fenway Park — except for one
Three of the AL’s batting average leaders were named "Robinson”
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