Foolio,
Actually no.
I live here in Louisville, Ky. Home of Louisville Slugger Baseball Bat company. They talk about that in the factory when you take a tour.
Also, you can here the words from the Louisville Sluggers mouth.
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Yet some question whether cork really does make the ball jump off the bat.
"What it does is reduce weight, which produces quicker bat speeds," Chuck Schupp, an executive with Louisville Slugger, once said. "But it also reduces mass, so the bat doesn't drive the ball as far."
Yale physics professor Robert Adair agreed.
"A corked bat will increase bat speed but won't hit the ball as far," he said. "You also reduce the length of the sweet spot. How far you hit a ball depends on mass. ? At a given speed, a light bat won't hit a ball as far as a heavy one."
Yale physics professor Robert Adair agreed.
Read that here...
http://chicagosports.chicagotribune....home-headlines
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Maybe the exec with Louisville Slugger is part of the Iraq regime.
Don't take my word for it.
Many people that are DEEP into baseball know this about bats.
Besides, the bat weight is only gonna decrease by 1 once. Not like its 10 ounces or anything.