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This is the 911 Colossal podcast with the operator and his exact twin, minus being born and

raised in Kentucky and his heroic military service and being born to a completely other

mother, Kent Chungus.

Oh hello, Kent. Hey, do you know the history of

baseball bats? Hey, buddy. I mean, I'm from Kentucky, the home of Louisville, which makes

the Louisville slugger. And I'm sure this is directly related to the call that we're

about to have today. Why don't we get into the history of baseball bats? I don't know

if you remember, but three seconds ago, producer said stick to the script, focus on don't

do the dally dally. No, dally dally. And so I'm not. I'm laser focused on this one.

Right. So I don't know if you know it, but the, yeah, the baseball bat actually has quite

a rich history. Sounds like it. Early early, the first, first glimpses of the baseball bat

rolled out in the early 18th and 19th century, the game of baseball or it's kind of earlier

variations. It was initially a played in the 18th century, which would have been the 1700s.

Right. And at that time, there weren't any real standard rules for equipment. So you

kind of brought what you brought. And then you played baseball or whatever they called

it. So they had their own bats. You played the, the retarded cousin of baseball. Yeah.

Well, and I kind of wonder if they even knew that they were playing baseball, you know,

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