Dolgeville

For decades the Rawlings Adirondack baseball bat factory has turned out bats for the major leagues using only one type of wood – white ash, prized for being both light and strong. But now the plant also uses maple as owners eye the possibility that ash may vanish to a voracious Chinese beetle that is spreading through the state.

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