lowest number of grains in your bat collection??

[Tay1038]

Re: lowest number of grains in your bat collection??

2006 Joe Mauer - 10 grain

[redoctober]

Re: lowest number of grains in your bat collection??

Gwynn loved his bats. He said they were his most personal baseball items, even more personal than his glove. In 1994, the year he hit .394, he used one bat for most of the season, an astonishing feat given that bats are broken today more than ever (hitters use as small and as light a bat as possible, with a skinny handle and fat barrel; Pete Incaviglia once broke 144 bats in one season because he simply overpowered his own bats). Gwynn didn't use his favorite bat against really tough left-handed pitchers, such as Jeff Fassero, who might get the split-fingered fastball inside on him, and perhaps break his bat. "I called it 'Seven Grains of Pain' because it was a seven-grain bat," Gwynn said. "The next spring training, I was really struggling, so I brought that bat out again. And I broke it in practice taking BP against Rob Picciolo [the Padres' first-base coach]. I broke it on Field 7."

Great thread -- just checked several of the bats in my collection. My Gwynn bat is the lowest grain count at 9.

[TwinLakesPark]

Re: lowest number of grains in your bat collection??

Lance Parrish 1984 LVS, 9 grains

[Roady]

Re: lowest number of grains in your bat collection??

I had never heard it called grains before. I always heard it called rings.