History Main / BatterUp

[[AC:TruthInTelevision]]
* Baseball and hockey both take this [[SeriousBusiness very]] [[http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2975386 seriously]].
** The funny thing about Juan Marichal and Johnny Roseboro? They actually '''became friends''' afterwards.

[[AC:RealLife]] (or well-told tall tales)
* With God as my witness, a completely true story ... Newlyweds move into our neighborhood, husband has a sales route that takes him out of town frequently; wife is a stay-at-home type, petite, quiet, a little mousy if truth be told. She's worried about staying at home alone, glad to know a policeman (that's me) lives close by. I suggest maybe some home protection; she says no, not because she doesn't like guns, but she reasons that if she draws and the goof calls her bluff, she can't pull the trigger. So I recommend an aluminum baseball bat. Whaddaya know, she says, hubby has one, he plays on a softball team. Okay then, put it under your bed. Three nights -- yes, ''three nights'' -- later, I come home at two a.m. and as usual, I case the neighborhood before I retire. Their back gate is open, so I inspect more closely and find their sliding glass door is off its track. I draw, I call in, and I move in. There's blood everywhere, and I think, oh boy this is not good. But then I see mousy wife holding an ''extremely'' bloody softball bat, like a samurai sword. I look around some more and I see what looks like a big pile of ketchup on the floor. This little hausfrau, five-foot-two tops, beat the intruder to a -- no, it was worse than a bloody pulp. I have seen the aftermath of so-called "mob justice", and no one dished out a beat-down like her. But you know what? Word gets out. Petty criminals and ne'er-do-wells give this house a ''very'' wide berth. And maybe that's a good thing.

* ''GrandTheftAutoIV'': "The Lost and Damned" ExpansionPack includes a Road Rash-style motorcycle racing mode where you can clobber the other racers with a bat.
* GTA 3 and Vice City also had the bat available. Just in case your knuckles were getting sore against other people's faces.

* Memorably used (probably half-jokingly, but we'll never know) as a threat by none other than the White House Counsel on ''TheWestWing'', in a SugarWiki/{{Crowning Moment of Funny}}:

-->'''Leo Mcgarry''': Well, that's TV. He's making a full-throated defense of the President. That's what we do. Believe me, in real life, when the cameras are off...

* ''EverymanHYBRID'': [[AxCrazy Evan]] finds a baseball bat lying around in "Ashen Waste". Then [[TheSlenderManMythos The Slender Man]] shows up and Evan ''tries to attack him with it''. [[HumanoidAbomination It]] [[BlackScreenOfDeath didn't]] [[BloodFromTheMouth work]], but he did achieve MemeticBadass status.

* [[{{TMNT}} Casey Jones]] signature weapon is a baseball bat, but he does use other sports-related blunt instruments.

[[AC:RealLife]]

** Also Rena in her backstory, [[spoiler:when she beat some boys that [[AttemptedRape tried]] to [[RapeAsDrama rape]] [[RapeasBackstory her]].]]