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Steven Baum: How To Build Wooden Baseball

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Do you remember seeing the wooden bats that people use in the MLB . Have you ever wondered how to make one. If so, this is how you make one. This paper is about how to build a baseball bat. In this paper you will learn how people from all over America anywhere from the the early days to the modern times build wooden baseball bats.
The creator of the first baseball bat was Steven Baum. Now he was like everybody else, and got a spoke from a wagon wheel and shape it into a baseball bat. He used hard hickory wood to use the bat to make it much harder to break.
Steven Baum created the first baseball bat and everyone used his logic of getting a wagon wheel spoke to create one around 50 years before they came up with a different way.
How they

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