11.   Kasarjian and Adamczyk, Westlake Village residents, started Tuff Bats, a company that makes custom-ordered maple wood bats, the X Bat.

12.   Major League and Minor League baseball are about the last leagues left, industry officials say, that allow only wood bats.

13.   Most wood bats these days are made from a single piece of ash.

14.   PHOENIX -- A stinking, stagnant offense threw away the balsa wood bats.

15.   Recently, the National Federation of State High School Associations announced new guidelines for bat performance, based on wood bats.

16.   So Cook designed a wood bat that has some of the virtues of an aluminum bat but is easier to hit with than an ordinary wood bat.

17.   Some NCAA officials would like to see a performance rollback so aluminum bats would perform similar to wood bats.

18.   The crack of wood bats and cowhide returned to Southern California, followed shortly by the thud of Los Angeles Dodgers blasts against and over the Anaheim Stadium fences.

19.   There are now special wood bats which are supposed to be less breakable.

20.   They were also using wood bats, a first for Zimmerman.