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You may recall that mailbox baseball gained its higher profile with Rob Reiner’s second directorial effort, Stand by Me. You can witness Kiefer Sutherland's clear potential for future mayhem (both on and off the set) in the clip below. (apologies for the subtitles)
This blog would be remiss by failing to note that in every at-bat, sultans of mailbox swat commit a federal crime with career-changing consequences:
Wig & Pen, of course, advocates the full wrath of federal law
toward all mailbox miscreants. But it
reserves greater wrath still for those who wield unsporting metal bats. True,
today’s maple bats lack the durability and overall mojo of their ash predecessors, but that's no excuse for flailing with the equivalent of a (metal) bat on steroids. Still, in the ash-to-maple controversy, the folks in Louisville are in denial. According
to a friend who recently took the Louisville Slugger factory tour, a
representative of the company ties bat fragility not to inferior wood but to
lapsed values among baseball players and you, the consumer. “Remember how when
you were a kid they told you to hold the bat’s label toward yourself for bat
protection?” he asked. “We've lost that sense of responsibility--Nobody does that anymore.”
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