Why Would This Guy Ruin A Perfectly Good Antique Baseball Bat?
 

Of course I am being facetious... :)

Unforgivable... And look how he's treating that precious Webless Workman's Glove!

There goes 100 members saying no that does not look like my 1850's bat. Mine is real, mine has a different color of wood where that thing is, it is a ring bat

Interesting. What he is holding is called a log roller. Google "antique log roller" to see some images. The iron implement could be fitted on any round wooden handle.

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They are called Peavey's.

I learned something in an agricultural high school. :p

He's got dozens of baseballs-on-the-hoof behind him....

I've got one of those!

Cant Hooks
 

It is probably a regional name but these great tools are commonly called "Cant Hooks" in the upper mid-west. They are indeed log rollers and are very efficient at rolling logs w/limbs removed. This example is mine and was used on a bunch of logging projects before processors and modern skidders came to be. They seem to always be hickory. I used this one on and off for 30+ years and never broke a handle. But every vintage example I have seen have holes for carriage bolts for the hook sleeve. They are still being made and sold for around $100 or less. Vintage examples are in most antique shops and farm auctions. There is a longer variant of the "Cant Hook" designed for 2 people that has 2 opposing hooks in the middle. Knob ends look like baseball bat knobs and if cut in half would make 2 bat like items. This version could avoid the carriage bolt holes.

While it does look amazingly similar to an early Town Bat, the Town Bat would typically have two somewhat flattened sides, and not be perfectly round in circumference. The handle w/rounded knob is quite similar, however.