The comfort of the baseball bat to the hitter is the most important factor in choosing a bat. As with any piece of sports equipment, be it your baseball glove or hockey skates – the more comfortable you are the better. Take a few swings with the bat and try to picture yourself in a [...]
The Marucci Bat Company takes pride in turning top quality wooden baseball bats in the same tradition and precise technique of the earliest bat companies. Every Marucci Bat is cut, calibrated, balanced, buffed and lacquered by hand. The Marucci Bat Company uses top grade Maple billets cut from selected, naturally grown trees in Pennsylvania forests. This [...]
Why Is Composite Technology So Amazing The trampoline effect, which is common terminology for baseball players, is the phenomenon when the baseball “jumps” off the bat at contact. The stiffer the barrel of the bat, the slower the baseball comes off the bat because it loses energy in the collision. The softer the barrel of [...]
Well it’s official. Sports Connection has been selected to be one of two retailers in all of Canada to sell Marucci Bats. Whats Marucci? Ask the over 300 MLB players that swing em for a living. Players such as Albert Pujols, Chase Utley and Vernon Wells. Stock will be arriving last week of March. Order [...]
While working in a premier sporting goods store is an amazing way to earn a living, many people don’t realize just how difficult it can be to create the perfect atmosphere where, to the customer, shopping there just feels “right”. At Sports Connection Source for Sports, over 20 years in the business has given us the insight and experience [...]
There are so many different types of bats on the market. Composite exploded onto the scene and has become very popular, but a lot of leagues and academy’s are going back to wood bats. Wood bats are for the baseball purest. Many coaches and pro’s feel that hitting with a wood bat is the best [...]
Steam is what got the Ball rolling when the early settlers first laid track for the Canadian Pacific Railway. Over a hundred years later we now look back to the wonders of steam to utilize it’s fantastic capabilities, to soften and customize your ball glove to your preference of shape, and softness. With this ancient [...]
Well it’s official! This is by far the coolest Facebook contest we’ve done! Everyone that “LIKES” us on facebook will be entered in to win a pair of FREE Bauer APX or CCM U+ skates (or your choice). So all you have to do if you don’t already “LIKE” us is go to http://www.facebook.com/#!/sportsconnectionsfs and click that glorious “like” [...]
It’s a warm summer evening. You rush home from work or school, fill your belly full of BBQ, grab your gear and head to the diamond. There’s no other place you’d rather be than getting dusty and swattin skeeters! You take the field (center of course) and wait for that first batter. “No Neck” Magirk [...]
The snow is melting, days are getting longer, potholes are all over the place. That can only mean one thing….. spring is creeping up and it’s time to knock the dust off the cleats oil up the glove and stock up on Spitz. Oh no!!! The glove was left out all winter, the dog chewed [...]
