The Suit is Back!<p><a href="http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html" rel="nofollow">http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html</a><p>I wonder if we should start putting [Advertisement] tags onto submissions like this, in the same way we do for Videos, PDfs, YC submissions, and old blog posts.
The handle is very similar to an Irish Hurley; <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Hurling_Ball_and_Hurley.JPG" rel="nofollow">http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Hurling_B...</a> , which has been around a few hundred years. (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajeagHCk15g" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajeagHCk15g</a> for a taste of the game itself).
> Its latest composite bat, the Avenge L140B, has special construction that allows the hitting side to flex like a spring.<p>I'm not familiar with baseball (Belgian here) and was wondering how these things are regulated? Does each player have its own bat? So one team can already be at a technological disadvantage when the game starts?
Reminds me of a hurley, the bat used to play the Irish game of hurling <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurling#mediaviewer/File:Hurling_Ball_and_Hurley.JPG" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurling#mediaviewer/File:Hurli...</a> . Notice the metal band to keep the end from breaking.<p>The ball is about as hard as a baseball. It can be caught in the hand, without a glove. Within the last few years they've had to wear (light) helmets. Hurling follows the Dodgeball approach of "If you can dodge a wrench...".
The product is available at <a href="http://www.axebat.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.axebat.com</a>, for anyone curious. The price for a maple bat ($99) is comparable to any decent maple bat from other manufacturers.
I've got a novel idea -- what if we made baseball bats out of aluminum instead of wood?<p>If we're going to say technological improvements to the bats are out of bounds, why are improvements to the handle part of the bats OK?