A Word from the Owners About Quality

Quality wood baseball bats may not be easy to spot. There is currently a lot of bad information from inexperienced and slick marketing bat companies.

There are many "bat companies" which claim they use nothing but Pro Maple, Pro Ash, Pro Birch etc.  Reality is, anybody can stamp “Pro Grade” on any wood bat, good or bad, without ever knowing what the term "Pro Grade" truly means.  There are currently hundreds of these “bat companies” out there that don’t even make their own bats or purchase lumber from other bat companies called OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturers) which is typically a lower quality grade of wood due to mass production.  Many of these companies may never even see the bats they ship to you and have absolutely no quality inspection of the product you have purchased from them; or may buy pre-made bulk stock bats from other OEM companies and put their own label on them.  Either way, true quality cannot be controlled this way. 

Here at Sandlot Stiks, we realize through years of manufacturing our own quality wood bats, the term "Pro Grade" is not what we purchase necessarily from our lumber suppliers, rather something we sell after taking the painstaking steps to sort out our raw lumber properly to produce the appropriate model from each individual piece of wood we turn on our State of the Art Machinery.  Additional painstaking steps must be made to insure we produce true round bats with appropriate grain clarity and alignment, followed by additional painstaking steps to get your order made to your specifications and shipped safely to you.  Anything less is just a wood baseball bat.  

We pride ourselves in knowing the difference and passing that quality on to our customers.  When we put our Sandlot Stiks PRO XL2 label on a bat you can rest assured that it has gone through rigorous quality inspections before it is ever shipped to you.  Our promise to you is this; we’ll do our best to outfit you with the highest quality wood baseball bats we can possibly produce, all you have to do is trust us and try them for yourself. 

Remember, there is no bad wood, just bad wood for baseball bats.  If you don't know the difference, you're probably being taken advantage of.  Get true Pro Quality wood bats from the people who know best.  As former professional baseball players, professional baseball coaches and current professional wood bat manufacturers, our motto is and always will be: “We wouldn’t sell it if we wouldn’t swing it.”

We are happy to have your business.

Sincerely,

Chris Corso, CEO

Jon Macalutas, CFO

Sandlot Stiks Official Bat