i'm joe gilligan. how are you?eporter: good. >> i'm going to show you around today, show you how to make a baseball bat. >> reporter: let's get started. >> i'm going to come over here and kind of show you some different pieces of wood. we actually use the two most popular, maple and ash. >> where do the trees come from? >> maple is grown primarily in vermont and massachusetts, and the grains are typically very hard to pick up. they're very light. and the ash primarily comes from the northern part of pennsylvania and the southern part of new york. the ash is a little different in the way you can really see -- you see the lines here? >> yeah, these lines are more defined. which one is more popular, the ash or maple? >> well, right now it's probably maple. the last ten years a lot of players have attributed better bats to maple bats. it's all about bat speed these days, and the faster you can whip the bat through the zone the better off they feel like they're going to be. >> so what kind of bat did babe ruth use, mapl