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Ray DeMarini founded the company in new york in 1990, introducing a "high-tech" softball bat. [1] The company's introduction of double wall bats, and the increased power they provided, drew praise and propelled the company's success, [2] but also prompted concern over bat safety. [3] Sales surpassed 10,000 bats annually in the mid-1990s. [1]
16-inch softball (sometimes called clincher, mushball, [1] cabbageball, [2] [3] puffball, blooperball, smushball, [4] and Chicago ball [5] [6]) is a variant of softball, but using a larger ball that gradually becomes softer the more the ball is hit, and played with no gloves or mitts on the fielders.
A fungo bat is a specially designed bat used by baseball and softball coaches for practice. The etymology of the word fungo (/ ˈ f ʌ ŋ ɡ oʊ /) is uncertain, but the Oxford English Dictionary suggests it is derived from the Scots fung: "to pitch, toss, or fling". [30] A fungo is longer and lighter than a regulation bat, with a smaller diameter.
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Many of these requirements are the same as their aluminum or wood counterparts. For example, the bat's weight to length ratio, known as the drop (weight in ounces - length in inches), must equal negative three. Meaning, a bat with a 33-inch length must weigh 30 ounces. Further, no bat's barrel diameter, at any point, can be greater than 2 5/8 ...
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