[Husker] batting helmets

[Eric Erlandson]

I always thought it was pine tar put there to "restickify" the bats over
the course of an at-bat.  

-Eric
(Eric Erlandson, VP, DirOp, ere at inebraska.com)

On Sat, 18 Jun 2005, Sean McGrath wrote:

> I asked the same question of a friend who knows a lot about baseball and
> he told me it's the pine tar from the bats. Apparently, the stuff gets
> everywhere. 
> 
> Sean
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: husker-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:husker-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf
> Of Harmon, Josh
> Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2005 9:50 AM
> To: husker at tssi.com
> Subject: [Husker] batting helmets
> 
> I'm probably the only person that doesn't know this, but why do all of
> the Nebraska batting helmets look like they've been through a fire?
> Were they?  Is this part of a tradition?
>  
> Josh
> 
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