Inspired by a Bernard Malamud story, this giant baseball bat was made from a 120-foot-tall spruce tree after lightning struck it on July 2 in Oneonta, NY. Property owner Martin Patton decided to create a giant model of the famed bat "Wonderboy," carved from a tree struck by lightning, in the book and movie “The Natural.”You can read the whole story here, but here are the facts:
- cut down to 50 feet tall, first for safety, then to match the shape of the fictional bat;
- done by woodworker Hal Macintosh;
- 11 feet around the base, with a 6-foot end cap that was to be attached;
- Patton said his wife is submitting documentation of the bat to the Guinness Book of World Records.
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