2025 Rawlings Mantra 3.0 -9 Fastpitch Softball Bat: RFP4M9 | JustBats.com (2024)

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Rawlings Mantra 3.0 -10 Fastpitch Softball Bat: RFP4M10

Calling all fastpitch hitters! Unleash your inner powerhouse with the 2025 Rawlings Mantra 3.0 -9, a meticulously crafted bat designed for explosive power and a lighter swing for ultimate control.

Bat Benefits

The Mantra 3.0 boasts a coveted 2 1/4-inch barrel diameter, a favorite among hitters for its increased hitting surface and confidence-inspiring size. The balanced swing weight, thanks to the drop 9 length-to-weight ratio, allows for smooth bat control while generating impressive bat speed for powerful swings. This bat is a certified performer, meeting USSSA 1.20 (New NTS Tested Stamp), USA Softball (ASA), NSA, ISA & ISF (WBSC) standards, ensuring legality across various leagues.

The Rawlings Mantra 3.0 takes innovation to the next level. The all-new, re-designed In/Tense Carbon Composite construction features a thinner outer barrel for an unmatched trampoline effect and explosive pop, while a re-distributed barrel mass keeps the swing weight light, allowing for more power with less effort. The 3-Step Inner Barrel further optimizes the sweet spot for a larger hitting zone, maximizing performance on every swing.

The Mantra 3.0 prioritizes both power and control. The F2 Collar seamlessly connects the barrel and handle, eliminating drag through the hitting zone for a smoother swing. The Ultra-Light End Cap further lightens the bat's feel, allowing for faster bat speed and more control over every swing.

Built to last, the 2025 Rawlings Mantra 3.0 Fastpitch Softball Bat features an all-composite construction that ensures long-lasting performance. The 12-month manufacturer's warranty provides peace of mind. With its innovative technologies, impressive power potential, and comfortable, lightweight feel, this bat empowers you to take your game to the next level and dominate the competition.

Rawlingsis a major manufacturer of competitive team sports equipment and apparel for baseball, basketball, and football, as well as licensed MLB, NFL, and NCAA retail products. Rawlings is a major supplier to professional, collegiate, interscholastic, and amateur organizations worldwide, including the Official Baseball Supplier to Major League Baseball.

The first real innovation in glove making occurred in 1912 when Rawlings Sporting Goods Company introduced the "Sure Catch" glove, which was "endorsed by leading players all over the country." The Sure Catch was a one-piece glove with sewn-in finger channels and looked better suited for a duck's foot than a man's hand. Catchers' mitts used at the time were large and bulky with a single leather thong passing for a web.

In 1920, Bill Doak, a journeyman pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, approached Rawlings with an idea for improving the baseball glove from a mere protective device to a genuine aid in fielding. The "Bill Doak" model was so revolutionary that it stayed in Rawlings' line until 1953. Its key feature was a multi-thong web laced into the first finger and thumb, which created for the first time in baseball's young life, a natural pocket.

In 1925, Rawlings unveiled a three-fingered fielder's glove, and ten years later improved the Bill Doak model with a two-piece leather web. At the same time, the "T" web became a rage for first basem*n's mitts. The pocket underwent a pronounced change in 1941 when the Trapper Mitt, also known as the Claw, appeared. The "Deep Well" pocket was so unique that Rawlings quickly patented it. The design was improved in 1950 by adding a leather piece across the top. Another significant creation occurred in 1948 with the three-fingered Playmaker. A five-fingered fielder's model, with all fingers laced together, provided greater pocket control.

The six-fingered Trap-Eze evolved in the 1960's. In more recent years, Rawlings produced the Fastback design, which gives a glove a snugger fit, greater extension, and overall control. The Holdster is a slot through which a finger can be extended for additional protection from impacts on the pocket. Then, there is the Edge-U-Cated Heel with its extended U-shaped lacing and the Pro H Web and much-copied Basket Web.

Some of Rawlings's more recent glove innovations also include the unique Spin-Stopper design which reduces ball spin when the ball hits the glove, and the Cantilever glove design feature that provides a cushioned area between the hand and the glove's palm area. In all, Rawlings has produced and patented more functionally innovative glove features and designs than that of any other glove manufacturer. The result is that the modern baseball glove is much larger, more comfortable, better padded, and made to last far longer than its ancestors. It is not uncommon to see today's Major League players wearing the same Rawlings glove they wore during their college playing days. In fact, Rawlings is the #1 glove in the major leagues. Rawlings maintains about 65 models of baseball and softball mitts and gloves in its line. The prototypes of virtually all of them have been field-tested by professionals before entering a sporting goods dealer's inventory.