Wonderboy

This video popped up on my feed:

source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1xcd7CtYdU

Torpedo bat ?  Really ?  :)  But the weird thing that caught my attention was the fact that bats are made from maple and birch !  For some reason I assumed they were all made with ash.

Birch ?  I got plenty of birch on the ground after the ice storm:

Beech is apparently also used for bats - I've got literally tons of beech and it happens to all be dying of some kind of disease - the external sign of infection looks a little like snow has stuck to the gray bark of the beeches:

The maples were pretty much unaffected by the ice storm, so too was the widowmaker:

just two spindly little trees holding up that rotten old poplar log

This all (of course) reminded me of Wonderboy from The Natural:

source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZR_FYKPAAQ

Seems to me that instead of torpedo bats they should make Wonderboy bats !

Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm