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Allie Garfinkle

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In third grade, Sean Henry had enough of the baseball bat dilemma. 

It was simple enough as a paradigm—the pros played with wooden bats, while kids only got aluminum. And Henry wanted to play like the pros (or as close as he could get at eight). So, he leveraged the Internet to negotiate with the terms of childhood, finding a manufacturer online who was willing to take the order: 25 wooden bats, kid-sized.

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