The demand for torpedo bats is keeping workers at Victus Sports in King of Prussia on their toes, writes Dan Gelston for The Hill.
Three of the company’s employees were at the game last Saturday when Paul Goldschmidt and Cody Bellinger of the New York Yankees hit back-to-back homers kicking off a nine-homer barrage. They immediately began a text thread, discussing the torpedoes – which they used – becoming famous. The torpedo features a striking design, with wood lower down the barrel below the label, and the end shaped like a bowling pin.
Yankees’ peers quickly realized there might be something to this shape, prompting them to ask Victus and other bat manufacturers if they could try out the new design.
“It was the most talked about thing about bats that we ever experienced,” said Victus co-founder Jared Smith.
While Victus is not the only company currently producing the bulging bats, they were among the first to offer them for sale online after the Yankees made them famous.
The company, which only made about a dozen of these bats last season and this spring, produced hundreds of Torpedoes just this week.
Read more about Victus Sports in The Hill.
