Sporting-goods manufacturer uses high-speed camera to improve the mechanical properties of baseball bats and hockey sticks.
Sporting-goods manufacturer uses high-speed camera to improve the mechanical properties of baseball bats and hockey sticks.
You might think that all there is to making a baseball bat is mounting a piece of wood in a lathe and cutting away everything that doesn't look like a baseball bat. That might have been true in Babe Ruth's time, but not anymore. "The bottom line for us, as for any sporting-goods manufacturer, is to make a product that is better performing than our competitors' products," says Al Murphy, manager of the test laboratory at Easton Sports.
