Book
From wood to baseball bat
Publication Information
Minneapolis : Lerner Publications Company, [2015]
Physical Description
24 pages : color illustrations ; 20 x 24 cm
Summary
"How does a piece of wood become a brand-new baseball bat? Follow each step in the process from cutting the wood to shipping the bat to a store in this fascinating book!"--Amazon.com.
Contents
- First, trees are cut into logs
- Then the logs are cut and shaped
- Next, a worker chooses a billet
- A machine carves the wood
- Then the bat is sanded
- Next, workers check the bat
- Machines add logos
- Then a worker stains the bat
- Finally, the bat is shipped.