Does anyone know the brand of pine tar and how it is applied to MLB bats? It makes a distinctive brown stripe around the bat, but more importantly lasts along time - unless ofcourse somebody keeps applying more between at bats.
Tanners Sticks are becoming more popular. Not as messy and just as effective.
quote:Originally posted by JCB
Does anyone know the brand of pine tar and how it is applied to MLB bats? It makes a distinctive brown stripe around the bat, but more importantly lasts along time - unless ofcourse somebody keeps applying more between at bats.
I always used Rawlings Pine Tar. It's messy but you keep applying more on top of the old and it will give a wood bat that brown mark as well as helmets and aluminum bats. Take an old Wash Cloth and put athletic tape (Duct Tape will "not" work) in a crisscross pattern covering one whole side, then go the opposite direction on the same side. Kids love helping make the rag and it will last a couple of seasons.
I bet you can find a video of someone on youtube demonstrating how to make your own pine tar rag.
My son applies pine tar when the bat is new and then uses the Tanner stick during games. He reapplies pine tar about once a week. We have had the Brett Bros. Pine Tar Rag for 4 seasons.
Pine Tar MLB
Posted - 08/17/2011 : 08:29:20
