Vintage Baseball Bats
Back in Time Bats for the Baseball Purist

Depending on whom you talk to, baseball’s origination can be traced to France, Canada or Cooperstown, New York where a man named Alexander Cartwright usually takes the credit for inventing the game. Any way you tell the story, baseball always started with the same key ingredients; a ball and a big wood bat. Phoenix Bats embraces the history of America’s pastime, not only by supplying the purity of wood bats that are made with the best quality and prices, but also celebrating this sport’s originators by offering an entire line of vintage bats.

Phoenix Bats offers a wood bat for every era of this game’s golden ages. Before baseball was making rules about the shape and size of wood bats, there were unique bats that offered distinctive knobs and handles. Like the “mushroom knob” which acted as a weighted balance to this big piece of lumber or the Lajoie with its double knob to force any hitter to choke up. Even replicas from the likes of Robinson and Shoeless were big honking pieces of wood! Whether these vintage wood bats are being purchased for use in a vintage league or being added to a room full of baseball keepsakes, Phoenix Bats has a selection that is second to none. Free engraving on any style of vintage wood bats can be complimented by custom artwork. These vintage wood bats will bring you back to the glory days of America’s greatest game, and only Phoenix Bats offers the breadth of custom designs that are right out of baseball’s history books.

With the Phoenix Challenge you can try any one of these models for 10 days and return it if you are not completely satisfied for a full refund. Offer details


Most popular vintage bat
Well balanced, versatile
33 & 35" c. 1850s-1860s

JT
Thick handle & knob
Slightly weighted barrel
36" c. 1850s-1860s
FB
Thin handle, little knob
31/33.5/35"
c. 1850s-1860s
DF
Long, bit of a thick handle
But easy to swing
37" c. 1850s to 1860s
Mule
Feels as big as it is
One of our heaviest
37" c. 1860s to 1870s

RB75
Not much handle or barrel
But a lot in between.
36" c. Mid 1870s
New York Model
Straight taper all the way
from barrel to knob
36.5" c. Mid 1870s
Mutual BBC
A lot of handle & barrel
And a lot in between
34.5" c. 1870s to 1880s
AA84
Use by many pros
Very well balanced
35" c. Mid 1880s

Burlingame
Fairly straight handle,
But still huge
37" c. Mid 1880s-1890s
AA87
“Mushroom” knob
balances heavy barrel
34" c. 1906
Mushroom
Similar handle & barrel
Ball-shaped knob
34" c. 1904
Ball Balance
Second knob forces
you to choke up
35" c. 1909
Lajoie
Shoeless Black Betsy
Long, heavy, & thick
36.5" c. 1910s

Shoeless
The Robinson model
Well balanced & durable
34" c. 1940s
R1
Base ball
From
1 piece of leather
c. mid 19th century

Base ball