Shatterproof Wood Bat Passes NCAA Test

October 27, 2008

Radial Bat, the makers of the shatterproof wooden baseball bat, today announced that it had received an approval rating from the official
NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) baseball bat testing center.

The test showed that the Radial Bat met its standard for baseball bat "liveliness" and is certified for use in NCAA games.

The NCAA requires that new technology bats be certified to limit their "liveliness." The certification process is achieved by measuring the performance of a bat under controlled conditions and then assigning a number to it; this number is known as the BESR (Ball Exit Speed Ratio). To be certified, the BESR of the bat must fall at or below a predetermined value
set by the NCAA. The Baseball Research Center, located at the University at Massachusetts at Lowell, serves as the official certification center for all baseball bats used for NCAA and the NHFS (National Federation of State High
School Associations).

"Radial Bat was designed with two purposes in mind: to make a wooden bat with combined strength for safety reasons and a larger sweet spot and
tighter wood grain for superior performance," says Radial Bat inventor Ward Dill. "Now we have the NCAA BESR performance test side by side with our unbreakable bat guarantee."

Dill, an MIT grad with decades of woodworking expertise, recently developed a solution to address the problem of wood baseball bats breaking in the Major Leagues (Over 1,700 bats were broken during just 2.5 months of the 2008
season), while providing a viable, safer alternative to metal bats used by children. His solution was a new category of bats he calls Radial Bats which are forged from "joined solid wood." He founded the Radial Bat Company in
2007.

A conventional wood baseball bat is cut from one piece of wood. What makes Radial Bats unique is the way they are constructed. They are constructed by milling 12 solid wood wedges that are brought together with zero slope grain around the entire Radial Bat. This innovation forms a
stronger bat with a larger sweet spot (the optimum hitting surface on a bat).

When a traditional wood bat breaks, the handle of the bat separates from the barrel (the hitting surface) and flies away quickly in the direction of other players or spectators, causing potential physical harm. When a Radial Bat cracks, it sustains damage to only a few of the 12 wedges, with the remaining wedges holding the bat in place, without a large shard of wood
becoming a trajectory.

The Radial Bat Company backs up its new bat technology with a one-year-guarantee. They will replace any Radial bat that cracks due to normal use.

Radial Bat Institute is the parent company of Radial Bat and is based in Warren, NJ. The company has patents pending for the new "joined
solid wood" baseball bat technology. For more information or to purchase a custom-designed Radial solid wood bat visit: http://www.radialbat.com

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