Man, haven't heard the sound of that ceramic bat in nearly 30 years, what a throwback! Yes, that bat was brutal if you weren't on target.

@ctsingletonboxing2829

9 ай бұрын

I had one didn't like it at all!

@toddk4115

9 ай бұрын

Showing our age here. lol. A team mater of mine had one when I was 13 in 1990. HIs shattered in batting practice before the season even started. It was well over $100 which was a lot back in that time. I think $150 or more.

@beatndagutta

9 ай бұрын

Me neither last time I saw it we were playing in a tournament in September in Massachusetts and I used my buddies ceramic 0:01 bat and cracked it bc it was so cold..

@chadmurrell3953

9 ай бұрын

Had the ceramic a few seasons went dead pretty quick

@irishsox1

9 ай бұрын

I used it in 1989. The just misses went a little farther but it was hard bat to square up, gave up on it after around 4 games. Switched back to the Black Magic for the rest of the season.

In Little League those ceramics were the "It" bat. That was straight new technology. It took me back when Will showed it. I went & grabbed my Big League Chew.

@Gravy_Master

3 ай бұрын

Grape flavor?

I cannot believe I was just looking this up the other day to try and remember what it looked like. My parents actually bought me one when I was 12 in little league in 1990. Everyone on the team used it and it ended up cracking by seasons end at a cool $100 bucks, even back in 90'! I cannot believe you are showing one a week after it came to mind, and I was just being nostalgic!

@heyoverhere8234

9 ай бұрын

I'm sure I played on that team. Or one exactly like it.

I graduated in 91. My high school team had one of those ceramic bats. It sucked so bad. It literally broke in half during batting practice. I want to see you swing an Easton black magic. That bat had some pop.

@cobbler88

5 ай бұрын

I was playing Legion baseball in '89. None of us liked that bat, and only a few could stand the Louisville Slugger TPX bats .

@Björn92

4 ай бұрын

Ole black magic 🤙🏻

@BrandonGavin_EDC

3 ай бұрын

Nothing compares to my late little league/into high school Reflex C Cores! Best bats ever.

@samsally3581

3 ай бұрын

Red line/ reflex winners

I remember when these came out when I was playing in a 7-10 year old league. Everyone wanted to swing it, until they swung it. Then everyone went back to their favorite aluminum bat.

Great video showing the history of bat innovation. A few years later they released the j series "graphite" composite before the OG "c core" which lead to reflex and Z2k/redline C-Core. Would be awesome to interview an old Easton engineer.

@yell0wberry

9 ай бұрын

I actually have the reflex, the graphite, and the Y2K. The ladder is still sold on some auction sites for close to $1000 and above

I can remember the Easton C Core bats of the mid 90's being super hot bats. What a throwback to funtimes of hitting with hot metal bats.

Ceramic fibers made their way into tennis racquets in the late 1980s, as well. They actually helped a bit with vibration dampening, for the most part. It looks like that attribute didn't carry over into the baseball applications.

@AcrylicGoblin

8 ай бұрын

I found them all disappointing. A small vibration dampener adequately reduced vibration and maintained the performance of carbon fiber.

@918_xDx

5 ай бұрын

brittleness was the biggest issue

@BrandonGavin_EDC

3 ай бұрын

@@918_xDxceramic is insanely hard but also super brittle.

@DefendTheStar

25 күн бұрын

I remember getting the vibration damper for my tennis racquet in the early 90s 😂

It’s funny I was thinking about this bat since I discovered your channel. My high school baseball coach had one of these ceramic bats and he said it was same as aluminum but feels like wood - nice to see it in action since he never let the bay out of his sight

I've got an original graphite from Easton, early 90s bat. It was really hot. It's a 34-31. I swung it when I was 13 and dropped bombs.

@TerryHughes-l1c

6 күн бұрын

I had one as well it was nasty

@ffstone77ify

6 күн бұрын

@@TerryHughes-l1c I believe it was the original PING sounding bat. I loved it. Got it hanging on my wall.

@TerryHughes-l1c

5 күн бұрын

@@ffstone77ify mine was a drop 5 and gun metal gray

@ffstone77ify

5 күн бұрын

@TerryHughes-l1c I had the original one. They didn't come in anything but drop 3. This back in 91. The drop 5s back in my day were the skinny barrel bats. If you wanted the big barrel you had to go straight to drop 3. So I went straight to 32/29 at 12, then straight to 34/31 at 13. I also grew over 8 inches too which helped. I wasn't exactly normal either.

My first ever “high-end” Bat was this very ceramic Easton…god did I hate miss-hits😂. I also ended my high school career with this model Reflex. So, thanks for the nostalgia on this one, Will!

@NoName-qs6ei

9 ай бұрын

Carl Smith is the name of the softball fields I used to play at. Tulsa?

@juliebraden6911

9 ай бұрын

​@@NoName-qs6eilol don't you think that would be a pretty common name?

@NoName-qs6ei

9 ай бұрын

@@juliebraden6911 you never know lol

Sticking with Easton, can y’all do a review on the MAV1 and the ROPE?

For you next video you should do a video with "The Goods" and the "Icon" to see what is the best bat. I can't choose which is better. Like a Home Run Derby with "The Goods" or the "Icon".

Love the sting reference! He was a fan of bat’s as well. Who knows he could have used a hot Easton in the square circle. Guessing it was a cheap bat though

I remember in 1994-1998 I loved my Easton EA70. It had such a sweet spot.

C555 Platinum was ceramic and phenomenal. Even better 5 years down the road after it cracked. I hit a 500’ bomb in the first inning of an all-star game. If I can still find the article on google I’ll post it. There were a handful of very good ceramic bats in the 90’s and 00’s though.

My brother used this bat! I actually hit my first BP homerun with this bat. What a sound!

Gotta give that bat another shot in warmer weather. It will feel a lot different. We put ours “in hibernation” when the temps started to drop.

@juliebraden6911

9 ай бұрын

I grew up in Florida so a lot of my friends loved this bat. Kinda confusing to see it get hate but that makes sense. Hated up north but loved down south.

My heart is broken! I had this bat my first two years of high school 90-92 and it was the best bat I ever hit with…until I cracked it. Never found another one to replace it. You saying the bat sucks has crushed my memories of my all-time favorite bat…lol

In the 90s I had a Reflex slow pitch bat and it was unreal. I loved that bat.

I have one of these bats in my "collection" of vintage baseball gear. I was playing in High School when these came out.

@j.t.daulton4635

5 ай бұрын

I went through like 2 or 3 of the Reflex. They were so hot but they dented in about a week if you hit a bunch.

I had one of those until I shattered it. Had more pop if you put it somewhere warm. It also came with an Easton bat sleeve. They replaced mine with an the the silver and green bat with the clear end cap. Favorite bat is a Worth Copperhead Cryo where they froze the metal to give it more pop!

@joshuarumbut5410

9 ай бұрын

Those Cryo bats sounded so cool when I was in Little League, never got to try one.

@918_xDx

5 ай бұрын

worth had some very expensive very hot but what we called "single tournament" bats as they damn near shatter in the cold and died after they launched just a few baseballs into orbit. They also brought tears on a mishit LoL... super thin super stiff handle... the sound was 🤌 when you connected tho and literally everyone knew it was a ringer when you heard that note

You guys should do a video comparing all of the Louisville slugger selects from when they started to become end-loaded from the years 2017 to 2023 showing the main differences between and comparing them between the years and showing which are really worth it

I want to see the 90’s Black Magic Easton. That was my hammer back then. That bat the most pop of anything

@furiogiunta7886

6 ай бұрын

Yes, I used the Easton Black Magic, I felt it had the most pop of any model bat Easton had.

The reflex will forever be the GOAT. Everyone on my all star teams had that bat, into high school ball.

I mean... it's not exactly the same material as what they use for cookware :) But it was still a cool iteration... I assumed they stopped making them because the weight/COR just wasn't there. It is kinda the opposite of a mythical titanium bat (which would destroy all other bats)

My dad has this bat and I waited for the day that it would be reviewed. He got it from trading baseball cards for the bat.

That 1997 Easton Reflex might be the best bat I have seen on The Baseball Bat Bros. Watching Will swing the 1989 Easton Ceramic made my hands hurt.

I died at the “stings” with three sting pictures lol

Ceramics engineering is pretty cool. They make these little pieces of glass (type of ceramic) for science shows that you can't break easily, but if you chip a little tab off it shatters. Neat stuff

I remember the gold plated Easton, that thing was a tank.. I hit over the fence, that was after my coach told me not to use it because he thought it was to heavy.. He came up to me after the fact and said you use that bad every single time.

It's amazing that I pitched in high school during the Reflex era and never gave up a home run. But then again I could not throw a football 7 miles !

I was playing Legion baseball in 1989. I remember NONE of us caring for the ceramic version of the "Green Easton" at all. Those and the early LS TPX bats just felt wrong.

I had the TPX High Velocity back in the early and mid 90s. Hit nukes. Mine was the red one. Should find one of those to review. I’d send you one, but the end cap broke😢

@prometheusfallen

9 ай бұрын

Had the same bat along with the green Easton and Black Magic. Probably the farthest ball I ever hit was with the TPX. Playing on a field that was about 380 to dead center that also backed up to another baseball field of smaller dimensions (probably the 200-210' variety), it landed right around 2nd base of the adjoining field. So, however far that is. 😳

This really tells the technology improvements over 30 years.

You gotta do the BJ10 bat...next generation of this smokes it

nice I remember a kid had that one at my baseball camp in 1992 when I was 13. Also tried a Graphite one and it was so light 21oz . I loved that one. they were both over $100.

That 90's bat was the legit shit. I remember being in Little League and one of the other kids brought one to practice and everyone else wanted to get the same bat. Really well balanced. Didn't ring into your hands. Plus it looked cool as hell. I never got one sadly.

I had a ceramic and a graphite bat. My dad got them from some close out store in the 90s. The ceramic would ring your hands up good.

These were all the rage when I was playing competitive league softball. I may still have one in the basement.

“One day, we’ll hit that light, bro…” Trying to recreate “The Natural”? 😜

I had a 34 in 34oz Easton Ceramic bat that I used for 4 years in the 90s. I bought it in 92 and it was white with black lettering. It was brutal on the hands unless you barreled it, but when I did that ball flew like a rocket and you wouldn't feel a thing. All the bats stung back then when it was on your hands.

@juliebraden6911

9 ай бұрын

Those bats taught us where the barrel really is the hard way. You had the sweet spot and the "give me a couple minutes to get the feeling back in my hands" spot.

Giventhat we were kids,the rumor around Mt baseball park was always that the biggest strongest kid in our league shattered one during an at bat. I think it was because we misinterpreted the ceramic part to mean delicate like ceramic plates or cups.

I have a ceramic Easton! Someone left it at the ball park, there was no name on it. Mine ever since. 28/34 MDL SC1.

You guys should track down the old air attack. Graduated in 99…. That and the reflex were the shit back then! Damn I miss those days

I remember those bats! My brother wanted one so bad but my parents refused to pay that much for a bat. One of his friends had one and they loved it. I believed they stopped making them because they found they cracked real easily. Also, back in around 1990 or so they were about 300 bucks if I remember correctly. I can't believe how much some bats go for nowadays! I went to the local Goodwill store and bought my son a bat for 5 bucks! No way was I spending a ton of money just so my kid could "possibly" hit a little further!

I actually have every single one of those bats, except for the new one (I really don’t care much for -3 bats) the ceramic bats were probably a little more appropriate for senior league and below and you probably didn’t want to be using it in temperatures of 50° and under either. I’m sure glad I caught this video for the first time, I’m looking forward to seeing how he maneuvers the Y2K -5 bat, which was a banned bat.

Some day that grocery store roof is gonna collapse from the 32 million baseballs Will put up there 😂

I haven't seen an Easton "green bat" since I was 10!!! Had to be spot on with it to get anything good, but I remember those bee stings and ringers in the hands

You should do an underrated budget bat review. Find the best cheapest bat. Also I love using the 918 prime from 2018 if you could check that hat out

Wills swing and consistency has drastically improved the past few years. Or perhaps he just got better at editing & posts only the good swings. Professional KZreadr HR hitter - my dream job.

You need to have another derby, but once the boys get their bats, you bring out the corndog and whip the shit out of that derby. I loved the corndog video. It was funny, and surprised the hell out of everyone. Keep the videos coming brother.

I didn't ever hear about drop when I played baseball in the 90s, I played for the Pony sytem mostly. But I was swinging 33 lenght 33 weight bats when I was just 12. Anything lighter and I was getting too far ahead of the pitch. When I stopped playing at 16 I was using a 34 length 33 weight bat. I remember one of our players actually had this bat. It didn't make a satisfying sound is the reason why none of the other players liked it.

It truly is a composite bat... it was reinforced with fiber... I guess in a way it was more like fiberglass than a true ceramic.

The bat I used back in the 90s was the Easton Black Magic it was the best I ever used.

@furiogiunta7886

6 ай бұрын

same

I had one at bat with that bat in 1989 as a 13 year old. Took one swing and popped out sky high to the pitcher. Never touched it again.

I had the second generation of the ceramic bat. It was dark gray with black lettering. I loved it. Had it just before high school. Felt like the Hulk when I broke it on a double.

Oh wow had wondered if the Easton ceramic would ever find its way on the Baseball Bat Bros. My dad purchased one for me when I was in little league, 90 or 91…an expensive haggle he wasn’t happy about but it was the new thing at the time…but man, I’ll never forget how much it hurt on mis-hits, especially as a youngster…I remember one cold-evening practice when I was 9 or 10 getting teary eyed in frustration because I wanted to swing with full confidence but making contact was unbearable. Looking back, I think it’s selling point was nothing but deceptive…getting barrel/sweet spot felt so smooth because anywhere else required a level of discomfort and pain tolerance.

I have a softball ceramic Easton!!! It was my dads. Lol. I did Hit a in the park home run with it.

You have to find a TPX Armor CB105 Ceramic bat to try for comparison it has a very forgiving profile. At the time my team shared mine because it was the hottest BESR any of us had used. Then we broke it after overuse Louisville replaced it with the newest at the time Omaha BESR it was not nearly as hot. Cheers

I still have my ceramic 33in 29oz….best bat I ever had back in the day. It was a killer. Called me a cheater. Never used gloves and never got rattled by it. Get some hands bro! Lolol 😂😂😂😂

My nostalgia bat was the Easton EA70 series ultralight (-9, granted I was 13). Man I loved that thing.

The craze of new materials hitting the sporting world when the aerospace industry took a massive shit in the 80's-90's. The reason the bats crack is from hitting or dropping the ends on a hard surface. I had one split on me. Minimum Wage was $3.15 and that Easton cost me a fortune.

Remember a body having one of these in little. They also had a graphite one as well. I have one of the reflex reds myself

"stings" its beautiful edit gems in life that make it all worth it.

My friend had this in 10 or 11u! What a memory man the ceramic bat.

I was in little league when that bat came out. A few of the cool kids bought it. I tried it and hated it. I always used the Easton black magic.

Someone on my team had a little league version. The graphite bats were also popular. I was always a tpx guy

Those bats feel/hit so much better when they are warm. We used to take them out of our bags and sit them in the sun when we got to the field - ready to go by game time.

@juliebraden6911

9 ай бұрын

This practice used to be common with wood bats too.

Swung the same bat as a junior in high school in ‘93 only it was all dark gray. And yes it would ring you up if you didn’t dime it up.

Louisville made a TPX besr out of ceramic. It was grey and blue and had a really rough texture on the barrels.

@user-uh7qe8mr9r

9 ай бұрын

My older brother had the white TPX ceramic bat in mid 90s. That bat was legendary in his senior league and HS days. It was fire. When the cap broke our family literally was heartbroken.

When I was a kid we just used a basic aluminum bat and my friend had that ceramic bat and I remember it just killing our hands.

3:14 That ceramic bat looked a bit intimidating from a distance. 3:54 That must've stung so, so damn bad. ⚡🧤⚾

My teammates cracked SO many of these!!! But....I did hit my one and only no doubter with one.

One bat that I would love to see a review of if you could find it is the TPX white shark from the 90’s

I bought that ceramic bat back in the day and used it for less than half a season before selling it to some sucker err.....guy on another team. I bought into the hype and we didn't have KZread to easily get opinions on the new stuff.

My brother had a Fiberglass bat in the mid-70's. I think it had the Louisville Slugger trade mark. It had a black/blue rubber grip molded over a steel tube. Hitting with it was like shock treatment. (later it was outlawed because the glue that held the grip would fail and the bat would go flying onto the field). This Ceramic bat seems to be a gimmick imo. Good job.

Had that bat in high school. Lasted about two weeks before it cracked and spider webbed in multiple spots. Thank god for warranties!

@brianmfournier

9 ай бұрын

One of my buddies had it in little league and the thing shattered on a foul ball

Was waiting for the ceramic review as I remember it from my college days. I didn't swing it but for a few at bats. Wasn't my thing. That Reflex though, was absolutely not fair. I didn't swing it but for a few at bats because it was NAIA and they didn't provide us with bats and we weren't sponsored so the reflex was owned by a teammate and he let me try it for a couple of ABs.

That bat was amazing! I crushed at ball at like 14 or 15 years old over 340.

In high school i had a louisville tpx bat and it was gold. It was incredible. Not aure if you have ever found one or tried it

I had both of those bats, the Easton and the reflex. Also had a white TPX that I still have laying around somewhere.

@jotunblod

9 ай бұрын

Loved those TPXs. They were the HR hitter bats around here where I grew up.

I have got to send in my old Easton Magnum if you want stings. It was a 34 - 30

I played 30 years in highschool & if I recall ... Worth had a ceramic bat as well.

Will are u guys going to do a cat x vanta review? All the versions?

The bell-tower "booong" at 2:54 is all you need to know about that beast

The ceramic bats hurt so freaking bad! It was crazy how bad your hands would sting. You also could not use them in early Spring because there was some type of minimum temperature requirement. I seen several crack during collegiate play.

Next try Louisville Air Attack 2. I used both Reflex and Air Attack 2 in college. And the Air Attack 2 had a lot more pop

You guys should do a budget bat comparison with the 44, the guardian, and the clout ai. Clout and guardian seem similar!

@baseballbatbros

9 ай бұрын

coming very soon

@falcon1378

9 ай бұрын

Clout Ai is sooo whippy, I got the 34, it swings like a 31.

@KirbysFakePunt

9 ай бұрын

@@baseballbatbroshey batbros do you know how thick the grip tape is on the victus vandal my brother swings a victus and I love the grip tape and the tape on my stinger missile is coming undone and I’m going to get marucci grip I just don’t know what size to get and was wondering if you knew

Outfield camera angles would be cool. I know that's a lot more editing, but just a thought.

The stinging takes back to high school in iowa and the early spring practices.

There’s a graphite Easton too. I got one from good will and it’s a great rock hitting bat but i can’t say I’ve hit a baseball with it. It launches rocks though

I'm a Materials Engineer and I would love to get into the materials of all these bats and help explain some of these scientifically. I also still play ball.

The hand ring was gnarly on that bat! God damn I remember when it first came out in high school!

I heard Vince Genna. No way! I live in Madras. Home of Jacoby Ellsbury. Seen many an Elk game there. Also one season I did play by play on local radio and PA announcing.

I remember when one of the guys on my little league team got one of these. We were all jealous lol.

I had that bat in 1994, it was so awesome

My dad still has his graphite bat you should do a video on the graphite bat

Have you guys ever tested one of the Louisville sluggers that had the airbag in the barrel?

I'd like to see you mash with the Copperhead that I used in 98. The one that looked like a wooden bat.