Looks Like Mickey Mantle Used To Cork His Bat

Looks Like ol' Mickey Mantle Used To Cork His Bat

And the follow-up to that is this article: Does corking a bat actually do any good?

The conclusion is that corking does absolutely no good in terms of how the ball travels off the bat, but the overall lighter weight of the bat may enable the hitter to get around a little faster, thus allowing him to get to some balls he might otherwise have missed.

That's precisely the same thing he could do by simply (and legally) using a lighter bat.

Oh, well. I guess Mick did TRY to cheat. He just wasn't smart enough to know how.

Imagine what that guy could have done on steroids!