Wood: Wood softball bats are very sporadic but gradually recapture approval with softball enthusiasts who would rather gather a thwack and not a ping when the bat meets globe. A firewood softball bated bottle-shaped and can weigh between 32-35 ounces (around 8 ounces heavier than an aluminum bat). Traditionally, firewood bats have been made from ash. However, ash is light and delicate and bats made from ash lean to particle and shock sudden. Wood from maple, oak, and bamboo is also worn for these bats. Maple is harder and its grain is denser as compared to ash, making it excluding susceptible to splintering and chafing. Bats made from Chinese bamboo are the closest timber bat equivalent of an aluminum bat. Bamboo is extremely light-credence and ha a tensile vigor superior to that of steel.

Aluminum: The improved research and engineering in the knowledge of bat making has resulted in high-tech aluminum softball bats that can expense upward of $300. Aluminum bats are lighter thereby enabling batters to create superior bat hurry and influence. They are stronger and more tough than woodland bats and they do not rest; however, they may bump or crack over a cycle of time. Aluminum bats are free in different alloy and import combinations. Light aluminum alloys that are thinner are more supple and supply a bigger thumping zone or "amiable speck." Aluminum bats are made in single-layer and bend-layer combinations; dual-layer the brawn used bats-hitters.

Graphite/Titanium lined: Aluminum bats are lined with graphite or titanium. These light, stable, and biting resources are added to aluminum bats with skinny bulwark to make the bats lighter. Lighter bats help batters to breed more intensity in their swing. Bats lined with graphite or titanium have a bigger thumping zone or "friendly stain." These supplies shock-absorbent as well and aid in tumbling the shock felt when a stroke is untimely.

Composite materials: Bats made from composite materials such as carbon, schooner, or Kevlar are light import, rigid, and strenuous. Composite materials enable bat manufacturers to incorporate unstable strengths and solidity in different parts of a bat. The result is a bat with stiff bat handles for better contain, low harshness beating areas for better performance and condensed shock, and differentiated swing weights. Bats made from composite materials have a large beating outward with a more pronounced "amiable mark." However, the furthest velocities at which the ball rebounds off the bat can pose a security hazard to the carafe who has to answer in a very narrow time.