Seattle will have more than just Robinson Cano representing the city Tuesday at the MLB All-Star Game in San Diego.
Mookie Betts of the Boston Red Sox will take a piece of this region to the plate when he leads off the game for the American League side. Betts this season began full-time use of an “Axe Bat” designed by Renton, Wash.-based Baden Sports Inc., a longtime manufacturer of sporting goods.
The company began developing the product in 2009 after being approached by a New York woodworker named Bruce Leinert, who’d discovered he felt more comfortable swinging an ax than a typical-round handled bat.