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B45 Baseball in Quebec City has seen requests for torpedo baseball bats skyrocket, including from MLB players, following a record-breaking Yankees game. The relatively new type of bat was designed by a former physics professor while he was working for the New York Yankees.
Batmaker Manuel Bouffard is busy sanding and sawing in Quebec City’s B45 Baseball factory, trying to keep up with the demand for the sport’s latest fad.
Standing over a machine that carves baseball bats from wooden cylinders in just two and a half minutes, Bouffard is making many more torpedo bats of late.
Unlike a regular bat, the torpedo was designed by a former Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) physicist to bring the most amount of wood or mass to the part of the bat where contact most often happens.
“It’s a big thing right now,” said Bouffard. “It’s new stuff, so obviously people want to …
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