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What do you call the baseball bats that are not sloped?

I have no idea what a sloped baseball bat is, don;t believe I’ve ever heard one described in that manner.There are fungo bats typically 35 to 37 inches long weighing 17 to 22 ounces and as David Allison wrote in the June 1978 edition of Country Journal, “A fungo bat looks to be a cross between a baseball bat and a broomstick.”There are bottle bats made famous by Heinie Groh a diminutive infielder who was the first known to use one. A true bottle bat had a long, even, wide body for most of its length, but tucked in abruptly at the bottleneck. It had a barrel that was 2-1/4" in diameter and very long handle that was 1-1/16" in diameter and very shot. It was also heavy, 34 to 37 ounces.Today these are illegal in baseball but can be seen on softball fields.Nap Lajoie used a bat with two knobs, one was up the handle a bit. Lajoie would choke up on the bat when he got behind in the count or faced a tough pitcher and the extra knob kept him from sliding his hands down. Once again these are not legal todayToday all bats must conform to the official rules of baseball.http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/downloads...Page 53.02 (1.10) The Bat(a) The bat shall be a smooth, round stick not more than 2.61 inches in diameter at the thickest part and not more than 42 inches in length. The bat shall be one piece of solid wood.(b) Cupped Bats. An indentation in the end of the bat up to 1¼ inches in depth is permitted and may be no wider than two inches and no less than one inch in diameter. The indentation must be curved with no foreign substance added.(c) The bat handle, for not more than 18 inches from its end, may be covered or treated with any material or substance. Any such material or substance that extends past the 18-inch limitation shall cause the bat to be removed from the game.(d) No colored bat may be used in a professional game unless approved by the Rules Committee.Currently the only day colored bats are used is on mother’s day. Those bats are then auctioned off and the proceed given to breast cancer research.There’s a history of the baseball bat on the SABRE site Properties of Baseball BatsI hope this helps.

Do soccer fans understand why other sports use the word "football"?

Yes and no.I certainly understand that the rest of the world  uses the term football for what we in the USA call soccer. And I understand that the term football refers to the foot hitting the ball. I don't understand the idea that football is a better word than soccer to describe the game. Hockey is not called stickball or stickpuck. Baseball is not referred to as batball. When talking about football (American) and the correct game is obvious, then only the word football is used. If the game of subject is not clear, then the term American is added either in parentheses after the word football (as I have just done above) or as an adjective before the word football to mean not-soccer. The word football in American football refers to the length of the ball. One foot is 12 inches, and a football is about 12 inches in length.

What are some examples of sports that use balls and bats?

Cricket, rounders, table tennis, the derivatives of rounders (baseball, softball, etc.), derivatives of cricket (tip and run, French cricket, etc.)If you open the floodgates to bats called sticks, the list is longer - hockey, ice hockey, hurling, lacrosse, shinty, polo, golf, knurr and spell, and I’m sure I’ve missed some!

What was the average speed of a fastball during Babe Ruth era?

Wow…lots of wrong answers here that are drastically over-estimating the “average” speed of a pitcher’s fastball during the 1920s and 30s in the Major Leagues.Sure…a couple guys, maybe up to three or four, like Walter Johnson, might have been able to unleash the occasional 95 mph fastball. But these guys were rare exceptions.Just as in every other sport….players nowadays are stronger, bigger, faster, and better conditioned and coached than in years past. You can see it in football, where nowadays 250 lb. linebackers run as fast as the quickest running backs and receivers from as recent as 40 years ago.You see it in Track and Field, where there are NO RECORDS still standing from more than about 20 years ago. This is only TWO decades! With the Ruth/Fastball Question, we are speaking of a full NINE DECADES!You see it, maybe more than anywhere else, in the NBA. It is doubtful than aNY players from the pre-1960s could even make a current NBA roster.And so it is in baseball…though the old-timers tend to try and hold-on to the notion that players way back when were just as good as today. This because the nature of the game simply makes it a tad bit more difficult to gauge just how much today’s players have improved.But the fact is: they have improved on orders of magnitude. Just as they did in every other sport.If the Babe of his prime..say from the mid-1920s were to come back today…it is likely he might not even MAKE an MLB roster. I surely do not see how he could hold down a fielding position, unless maybe at 1B. And I doubt greatly he could be a DH in the AL. He'd simply be overwhelmed by modern pitching. Where he faced continually fresh arms firing steady mid-90s fastballs and breaking pitches he never saw the like of 100 years ago.That said..back to the question. The average fastball for all of the roughly 75 or so starting pitchers from, say, 1927 would be around 80–86 mph. Put those guys in today’s game and they would not last more than a couple innings. Ever. Period.