2009 Louisville Slugger YB9X TPX Exogrid Youth Bat Feature
- Composite baseball bat designed for youth league players
- Metal exterior includes extra-strong carbon composite inserts
- Internal carbon composite sleeve creates extremely stiff handle
- Stiff handle produces more barrel flex for better trampoline effect
- -11.5 oz. weight ratio without grip; available in 28- to 32-inch lengths
2009 Louisville Slugger YB9X TPX Exogrid Youth Bat Overviews
The Exogrid concept is simple: increase the handle stiffness and strength without increasing the weight. The barrel is made with the industry leading ST+20 alloy. The Transition area has metal that is trimmed in a grid pattern, then replaced with carbon composite inserts that are several times stronger and lighter than the metal they replace. The heart of the Exogrid is a carbon sleeve, which provides greater handle stiffness than aluminum alone ever could. Unidirectional fibers run the full length of the handle. Using a combination of heat and extreme pressure, the sleeve, inserts and metal wall are bonded to function as a single, solid unit.
2009 Louisville Slugger YB9X TPX Exogrid Youth Bat Specifications
Designed for youth league players, the Louisville Slugger YB9X Exogrid baseball bat delivers unmatched power and performance. From the earliest days of the game, Louisville Slugger has employed the most powerful technology in the bat business. Back in the days of Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth, that meant putting the most skilled craftsmen at the lathe, where they handcrafted bats to the most demanding specifications of the world's most demanding players. Today, it means applying the latest aerospace technology to bat making, delivering high-tech aluminum, hybrid, and composite bats for youth, high school, college, and senior leagues.
The YB9X composite bat features Louisville Slugger's exclusive Exogrid design, which is known for fusing stiffness and strength. The last thing you want at the moment of contact is for your bat handle to flex. When the handle flexes, the barrel can't, which in turn reduces the bat's trampoline effect. A stiff handle, by contrast, produces more barrel flex, resulting in a maximum trampoline effect and greater overall performance. The heart of the Exogrid is an internal carbon composite sleeve, which offers unidirectional fibers that run the full length of the handle. This provides greater handle stiffness than aluminum alone ever could. The bat's metal exterior is also trimmed into a grid pattern, with the cutouts replaced by carbon composite inserts that are several times stronger and lighter than the metal they replace. As the final step, Louisville Slugger bonds the sleeve, inserts, and metal wall using a combination of heat and extreme pressure, producing a single solid unit. Other features include a 2-1/4-inch barrel thickness, a patented Pro Cup end cap, a 7/8-inch tapered handle with a synthetic grip, and a -11.5 oz. weight ratio without the grip. Available in lengths ranging from 28 to 32 inches (with weights from 16.5 to 20.5 ounces), the YB9X carries a one-year warranty.
About Louisville Slugger
In many ways, the rich 120-year history of the Louisville Slugger baseball bat began in the talented hands of 17-year-old John A. "Bud" Hillerich. Bud's father, J.F. Hillerich, owned a woodworking shop in Louisville in the 1880s when Bud began working for him. Legend has it that Bud slipped away from work one afternoon in 1884 to watch the Louisville Eclipse, the town's major league team. After Pete Browning--the Eclipse's star who was mired in a hitting slump--broke his bat, Bud invited him to his father's shop to make a new one. With Browning at his side giving advice, Bud handcrafted a new bat from a long slab of wood. Browning got three hits using the bat the next day. Browning told his teammates, which began a surge of professional ballplayers visiting the Hillerich shop.
Although J.F. Hillerich had little interest in making bats, Bud persisted, eventually registering the name Louisville Slugger with the U.S. patent office in 1894. In the early 1900s, the company was one of the first to use a sports endorsement as a marketing strategy, paying Hall of Famer Honus Wagner to use his name on a bat. By 1923, Louisville Slugger was the selling more bats than any other bat maker in the country, with such famed clients as Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, and Lou Gehrig. In the ensuing years, the company has sold more than 100 million bats, and 60 percent of all Major League players currently use Louisville Sluggers. The company now sells far more than bats, including fielding and batting gloves, helmets, catchers' gear, equipment bags, training aids, and accessories.
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