That brings back some memories from when I played senior league when I was 13-14 years old. That was the first big barreled bat I ever held, thanks for the content.
You dudes are spot on. The old black magic was widely available still here in the late 90s, but we didn’t swing em. We swung the TPX and the Reflex. The black magic just wasn’t at the level the late 90s to early 2000s bats were. Also, Easton made another black magic circa 99-2001 time frame. That bat swung like a reflex.
I swung a Black Magic my senior year in high school (1996). College team had a TPX contract and I realized my mistake as soon as we got those bats in. That Black Magic probably cut my HR total in half.
We had a Black Magic as a team bat in the late 80s. Imagine that - we had four team bats and no one owned their own. My son has three bats + Camwood today.
Right! 🤣 nobody had their own helmet either. Baseball teams used the team bats and helmets unless there was that one lucky kid on the team that their parents bought them a good bat and everybody would use it.
Nothing beats a Black Magic from the mid to late 80s, still have my 32" 29oz in the garage and now my son uses it, he says it still has mad pop and blows away today's bats!!!
Yes sir. I dont know how but I convinced my late mother to buy me the 32" Black Magic in 1983 and hit several homers with it, albeit on a field that was only 300ft all the way around. lol Any of the kids on my team that had enough strength used it as well. I also had the 34" basic looking silver Easton with green letters that was the most widely used among college teams at that time. Both were good but felt nothing alike. lol Just watched the video and rotf at remembering how hyped I was to get that bat then thinking crap the sweet spot is tiny! Rarely did I have a nice vibration free contact with the Black Magic but the ball still traveled.
Just found this channel. This was my favorite bat. I swung a 35” 32oz black magic at 14, my teammates called it the tree…But you’re dead on, the tech really jumped in the mid 90s.
In High School I used a Black Magic back in 94 my senior year of high school and I hit a no doubter dead center and people say it went 450 and dead center was 400. I swore by that bat and it’s great it’s coming back out. Thanks for the video I was hoping the old school one was better but with time comes better technology.
You hit the nail on the head about the 90’s BM. It rung you up bad and didn’t feel great when you hit it well. Once the green TPX came out, the BM’s were at the bottom of the bat bag that nobody touched. Then came the Redline, then the Z2K.
It might be a 92 model but it's, essentially, an 80s bat with 80s tech. When it came out, it was GAS!! no doubt it's a dog compared to what came in the next decade but it was truly magic in its time.
Agree 100% I used them all thru HS and College was a great bat for the time, but you had to hit the sweet spot, and the were only good for about 250 solid hits before they lost the pop and became a dead bat. I am going to assume he has the famous dead bat black magic you usually could tell from the sound of the bat. also the barrel on the OG BM is illegal now it was too fat
Played through the era of these bats. They were really sensitive to temperatures. Main reason it's probably stinging your hands alot is because the bat was below recommended temperature. I remember the sweet spot on the black magics was more towards the end and when you hit it solid it almost felt like squaring up the ball with a wooden bat. There was also a red and black Easton I remember from those days like that. It almost looked Ike a reflex with 2 panels on the barrel that were black with a different texture that had Easton in red on them but they didn't connect, there was a strip of red inbetween the 2 panels. It didn't have any taper at all, it just basically went straight out from the handle like a polygon all the way to the cap. Sweet spot was near the top just like the black magic was. Both used a thicker aluminum. Neither were very forgiving but if you did hit that sweet spot near the end of the bat it felt super solid. Neither was used very much on the many teams I played for. My favorite still has to be the Easton redline c-core. The sc500 I believe was the model number. Bought 2 of em at 300 a pop back then and still have a 33in 28oz today. Aluminum was so thin you could literally feel the trampoline effect. Was very forgiving, I had my fair share of being out on my front foot being fooled by a slider curve or change up and still ended up hitting em out. One that's on tape I actually said damnit and smashed the bat on the ground thinking I popped it up to left center and it carried the 370 mark by a good bit anyway. Bats from that time, the late 90s early 2000s were insane.
This video hit me right in the feels…and so did the Black Magic. We made fun of it back in the day because it felt like crap and had the sweet spot way too far out. HOWEVER: The Black Magic holds the world record for the most appearances on statuettes and mom buttons. Everyone always picked the Black Magic on picture day. Even like 5 years after everyone was done using it. We used to think the Air Attacks didn’t look that good when they came out, but I absolutely feel the opposite today. The new black Magic is sexy though, I think they absolutely nailed the looks again. If we do a bracket on looks alone, ink Black Magic into your final four.
The shirt is probably from Amador Valley High School in Pleasanton, CA. Played em a few times in league during the season. Their mascot is The Dons and their colors are purple and yellow so I have a pretty good feeling that the shirts is from the one in Cali.
Love the video I’ve been waiting so long for this video I have a 1996-97 Easton black magic and it just hits nukes keep up the great bangers and dingers
Can confirm, because I played with the OG Black Magic, that you only had a 3 inch sweet spot on the barrel and anything lower your hands were feeling it... But it was the hottest bat we had and that's why you get all the hype with the OG Black Magic.
90-94 HS player here. Nothing held a candle to “the devil”. 34/30 LOUISVILLE SLUGGER RED TPX (TPXFBXV). Dropped absolute nukes with that bat. I’ve got one in pretty good condition if you wanna swing it.
You need the 80’s Black Magic - the one you’re using was a later fail by BM. John Olerud (PAC -12 Player of the Century) Pete Incaviglia Phil Nevin Will Clark etc & the rest of my D-1 contemporaries had no problem finding the barrel on the original Black Magic. Check out 80’s CWS highlights and you’ll see the OG stick.
Broke out my 1983 Black Magic for my son, just graduated HS, and is playing D2 this upcoming school yr, it still had a lot of pop, he was absolutely crushing with it, his Lville select power is no where near as lively.....he hit several 400ft plus with the bat and me throwing about 75mph to him.
I was like 13 when the Black Magic came out. It was the first bat that anyone could manage to hit a homer with in little league. My brother is 3 years behind me and the difference in the bats he had and my class had was night and day. We had like 3 homers in the league the entire season across all teams (all with a Black Magic). They had like 30. When the Black Magic came out though, there was nothing else in its class.
My personal experience 1980s-90s bats were that Easton was a great bat in the 80s, but they got left behind in the early-90s. Easton also started playing with composite designs that I believe didn't catch on because of price.
I swung what was probably an earlier version of the Black Magic in high school. It was black with the traditional Easton logo in gold. I'm not disappointed to find out It wasn't that great. Just proves I was a better hitter than my son 🤣🤣. Imagine if I had a voodoo one to work with....
The old logo ones were still the bat in the early 90s. The one in this video was mid 90s. They also started to have the texture barrel around then too. This Black Magic wasn't their top of the line Easton then either. The EA70s were better.
Todays bats make average hitters good and good great. It’s been lie that got the last 15-20 years. You really find out who can hit when everyone swings a wood bat.
By 1995 The Black Magic was only in the bat bag in case of a bear attack. The first model 2-3/4 was all black with gold writing “pro baseball” inscribed on it. Albert Belle hit them in the lights in Baton Rouge with one. We were all using TPX when this model you’re swinging was out
RED LOUISVILLE SLUGGER TPX BAT 34" 30 oz. MODEL TPXFBXV in HS from 90-94…absolute bomb dropper. The black magic never got used on our team. Sat in the bat rack with no touches.
Have you swung either of the EA70s from like 93/94? Black/Yellow was a drop 4 and the Maroon/Gold was a drop 3. Those were my high school bats and loved them, I graduated in 94. The reflex was the first one I remember that the ball just seemed to come off at crazy speeds and that was a few years later. I also remember in the early 90s a bat called the Ultra Light.
I still have my old Eastons. I’ve got the gold/maroon one and it was a mortar! We didn’t know what it’s official name was back then since there was no Google😁. We called it Goldie or The Maroon-Kaboom.
I graduated in 1993 and always used a 34 Black Magic in high school. I used to hit some monster shots with it. They were on the heavy side but super hot. They tended to die fairly quickly. I'd get a new one every season.
Great video guys and your def right. I grew up swinging the black magic and it was a great bat but it was clunky and had a very small sweet spot. The reflex, which came out just after,is the black magic just refined and lighter with a huge, forgiving, sweet spot that changed everything and the hot bat era began.
My dad played with a guy his senior year of high school who was 6'10" and played basketball at Clemson, and he hit a ball 450+ into a pecan orchard with the OG Black Magic. Just insane (this was like 1984)
Bros that hit with it in the early 90's are 47ish now bro. I hit with LS TPX in high school. If my memory serves I bought one in time for fall ball in '91. Made me a dugout hero for a while everybody wanted to hit with my bat. Some bats still had that 'tink' sound back then but not like these days. First game I went to see my kid play about 15 years ago I laughed at the sound of bats. I told him I remember more of that crunchier sound if you made solid contact on some heat, but he didn't believe me. Still nothing like wood bat. But thanks, I forgot that sound. Also, when home boy in the video made contact not in the sweet spot and spun around with his hands in shock, dude I sympathize. My first two years of varsity ball I'd feel that pain nearly every at bat and every batting practice until I found the sweet spot, and then sometimes thereafter if the pitcher had any surprising late movement on his heat LOL. Cool video though, memories!
I had a green Mizuno with yellow text in the late 90s. 2¾" barrel. I eventually cracked it after a couple seasons. But man, that thing had POP unlike anything else I've ever used before, or no since.
I saw college guys swinging this in the regionals and couldn’t find it online anywhere. I guess Easton schools may have gotten an early opportunity to swing them. Definitely not the hottest BBCOR to swing or even the best Easton really, but it looks so badass that I’d probably swing it anyway.
From what i remember (I was in High school through the late 90's) The CU31 alloy bats werent very good. They got hot when they went the Reflex which was C405 and then hotter again when they went EA70 and Carbon core in 96 - 98. Reflexes were used in the Olypics in 1996 by USA and Australia and a few other countries. Scandium I think came in around 1998 with the Grey Redline and the 777 bats. Z2k was obviously 2000 where the tech was insane. So it was the last 5 - 7 years of the 90's were the sweet spot of juiced bats.
Bro!!! I swung the green TPX all through high school! We absolutely wrecked that bat. It put 15 homer’s on my stats from my sophomore year through my senior. 9 of which were my senior year. Amazing times to be a baseball player.
Silver and Blue Black Magic came out a few years later. That one also introduced the high pitched ping. The clunky sound was more in line with the Purple/Gold Easton React.
I had a 1993 Easton Black Magic. I hit one out with this bat when I was a senior in high school in the biggest field in and another when I was a junior in another very big field. Loved that bat. Probably doesn't help that it is 30 years old and was probably well used in its heyday.
The late 90s version with the black barrel that says black magic in dark blue in the barrel is the best one. The 99 silver Redline -5 Redline C Core is the hottest bat ever. Even hotter than the Z2K. Get your hands on that one.
I swung a different Black Magic in the late 80’s. I’m pretty sure that’s the OG. I’m sure both of these bats out perform that brick but it was hot for its time. I remember a green Easton that was a “long barrel” it was rare and hard to find if you ever get one of those it would be a cool review for us old dudes that are in Senior softball now lol. Love the energy guys, great videos. Subed.
When I was a kid, the Black Magic was the holy grail. I didn't even have any friends who owned one because of the cost. Hell, I'm so old, I'm talking about the Black Magic pre-Bam Bam Barrell. It was only surpassed when Louisville Slugger released the first of the TPX line.
Gotta check out the 99/00 TPS Omaha Gold. That bat was a monster for me in HS. In fact still have it because I never wanna let it go. Won't ever use it again but will never forget it.
I used that bat when I was 13. Probably the perspective that made it legendary was the bats that were available before. Black magic is also a pretty legendary name for a bat.
At our 14u tournament this past weekend a kid had one it's really nice looking in person very pingy sadly but good for us he only fouled off a couple and struck out 3 times so couldn't see how it performed on field. My son has been absolutely killing it with the 2020 Fuze Hybrid 360 had a one hopper to the LF pole at 330 so he has no interest in the Black Magic lol and bailed on his Voodoo One and Goods One even though he's always been a 1 piece kid. Soooooo glad you guys reviewed it otherwise we would've missed out on it.
AVHS is Amador Valley High school in Pleasanton, California. Played them in both baseball and football from 04-08. Their football field had a jumbotron which I had never seen before for H.S.
Great video Will! The CU31 alloy of the 90's was something else alright. There's another version of the Black Magic that came in black, blue, and silver. 95-96 year range. I swung and destroyed both bats. I found the blue model much hotter than the yellow. It also had a funny "bump" in the taper that the yellow didn't. I think that model deserves a chance to redeem itself.
Yep 36 and one of those old guys and I had black magic because well I used bats 5 years or so after “hot” years when the price dipped but this completely explains my warring track power I had and could never get that perfect shot!!!
Guy I work with said the black magic redline…might even be a BESR bat, was hot as hell. He swung the Black Magic too. Have to check what year though. He played pro ball in the 80’s and used alloy when he was out of the league but still playing.
I swung the Black Magin in 87-90. Thing I will say is I used the same bat my Sr year in HS and JC and an Adult League. Bats lasted back then and I loved it (my dad was mad that he had to pay $105 for a bat - LOL). I am now 52 and have swung a few of my son's BBCOR bats. Todays BBCOR is much better.
I played HS baseball from 1991-1993 and I have never heard of the Easton Black Magic until now. I watched a current video of Eric Sim swinging one (not sure which year). He said the bat he was using was illegal and I did a search to see what the Black Magic was all about.
I graduated hs in 01. We had an old black magic as a team bat, but it looked different than this one. It had the block Easton logo on it. It was already beat to hell by time I got to school. The bat that we all used was a TPX c405. I think it was black with like teal or green graphics
Definitely swung a black magic a lot in my junior high/ high school days. I remember loving it, but I was a singles hitter all day. Might be why I didn't mind the lack of pop.
We weren't allowed to you use the Black Magic in teener ball and legion ball in the late 80's early 90s. But I remember using it in softball in the summer of 90.
Those 92' 93' Black Magic had a very small "SWEET SPOT". I still have a few of my bats upstairs. The "sweet spots" only seemed to get bigger from 92-98. In college we used wood and I tried once going back to aluminum, but once I found the "sweet spot" on a R161, there was nothing comparable. Took me about a week of hitting multiple times everyday to consistently find the sweet spot on a 34inch/31ounce. Grew-up swinging -5 ounces until I started lifting and filling out my sophomore year 94'. great bats during those years
I graduated 93. Played minor league ball. I hit bombs with that. 450 plus. But also we used Baum bats in rookie league and hit monster bombs with that during Bp. A a few in games.
The Black Magic was always a PoS. I was playing little league in the early 2000s and the Black Magic (little league version) was a $39.99 bat. A step up from a Louisville Silver Slugger but not even close to your TPX or 777s of the world.
Comment on the Don Squad shirt: It looks like Amador Valley High School in Pleasanton, CA (I'm an older alum, and can't confirm). Yes, I was in love with the early 80's Black Magic.
Yessir! Let’s make that collab happen! Great meeting and hangin this week at the CWS bro! Hope you enjoy the VELOs
I gotta get me a pair 👀
Jax did you make the Velos?
@@anna.kat. yeah he made them
3:53 backwards skully in beeps lowkey an underrated look I’m all for it
Juco Bandit baby
Lookin like Larry Walker during the 1997 ASG facing Randy Johnson!🤣
When you’ve got college hitters swinging it in the CWS a week after it’s released you know it’s gonna be a banger
yep it's solid, but they're using it because it's just a repaint of a bat they've already been using (the Alpha ALX)
When I was in little league in the early 90s the Black Magic was the God Of Bats!!
My dad gave me his and he said the same thing!😀
Dude… I had to gain hella Boy Scout patches and sell a grip of my old gear to get
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Reflex?
That brings back some memories from when I played senior league when I was 13-14 years old. That was the first big barreled bat I ever held, thanks for the content.
A lot of memories for me too. This was the bay that the school bought and the whole team used the same bat or two. Lightower bombs
@@abowen8556 same here, we only had 1 that the entire team used.
You dudes are spot on. The old black magic was widely available still here in the late 90s, but we didn’t swing em. We swung the TPX and the Reflex. The black magic just wasn’t at the level the late 90s to early 2000s bats were.
Also, Easton made another black magic circa 99-2001 time frame. That bat swung like a reflex.
The Redline tho…
Correct. It was black with blue writing I believe. I believe it was more around the 1996-1998 as 2000 the BESR era began.
No bat will even match the 90's reflexes for me. Man, they were great.
I swung a Black Magic my senior year in high school (1996). College team had a TPX contract and I realized my mistake as soon as we got those bats in. That Black Magic probably cut my HR total in half.
98 air attack 99 redline!
We had a Black Magic as a team bat in the late 80s. Imagine that - we had four team bats and no one owned their own. My son has three bats + Camwood today.
Right! 🤣 nobody had their own helmet either. Baseball teams used the team bats and helmets unless there was that one lucky kid on the team that their parents bought them a good bat and everybody would use it.
Nothing beats a Black Magic from the mid to late 80s, still have my 32" 29oz in the garage and now my son uses it, he says it still has mad pop and blows away today's bats!!!
Yes sir. I dont know how but I convinced my late mother to buy me the 32" Black Magic in 1983 and hit several homers with it, albeit on a field that was only 300ft all the way around. lol Any of the kids on my team that had enough strength used it as well. I also had the 34" basic looking silver Easton with green letters that was the most widely used among college teams at that time. Both were good but felt nothing alike.
lol Just watched the video and rotf at remembering how hyped I was to get that bat then thinking crap the sweet spot is tiny! Rarely did I have a nice vibration free contact with the Black Magic but the ball still traveled.
Just found this channel. This was my favorite bat. I swung a 35” 32oz black magic at 14, my teammates called it the tree…But you’re dead on, the tech really jumped in the mid 90s.
In High School I used a Black Magic back in 94 my senior year of high school and I hit a no doubter dead center and people say it went 450 and dead center was 400. I swore by that bat and it’s great it’s coming back out. Thanks for the video I was hoping the old school one was better but with time comes better technology.
You hit the nail on the head about the 90’s BM. It rung you up bad and didn’t feel great when you hit it well. Once the green TPX came out, the BM’s were at the bottom of the bat bag that nobody touched. Then came the Redline, then the Z2K.
It might be a 92 model but it's, essentially, an 80s bat with 80s tech. When it came out, it was GAS!! no doubt it's a dog compared to what came in the next decade but it was truly magic in its time.
Agree 100% I used them all thru HS and College was a great bat for the time, but you had to hit the sweet spot, and the were only good for about 250 solid hits before they lost the pop and became a dead bat. I am going to assume he has the famous dead bat black magic you usually could tell from the sound of the bat. also the barrel on the OG BM is illegal now it was too fat
Played through the era of these bats. They were really sensitive to temperatures. Main reason it's probably stinging your hands alot is because the bat was below recommended temperature. I remember the sweet spot on the black magics was more towards the end and when you hit it solid it almost felt like squaring up the ball with a wooden bat. There was also a red and black Easton I remember from those days like that. It almost looked Ike a reflex with 2 panels on the barrel that were black with a different texture that had Easton in red on them but they didn't connect, there was a strip of red inbetween the 2 panels. It didn't have any taper at all, it just basically went straight out from the handle like a polygon all the way to the cap. Sweet spot was near the top just like the black magic was. Both used a thicker aluminum. Neither were very forgiving but if you did hit that sweet spot near the end of the bat it felt super solid. Neither was used very much on the many teams I played for. My favorite still has to be the Easton redline c-core. The sc500 I believe was the model number. Bought 2 of em at 300 a pop back then and still have a 33in 28oz today. Aluminum was so thin you could literally feel the trampoline effect. Was very forgiving, I had my fair share of being out on my front foot being fooled by a slider curve or change up and still ended up hitting em out. One that's on tape I actually said damnit and smashed the bat on the ground thinking I popped it up to left center and it carried the 370 mark by a good bit anyway. Bats from that time, the late 90s early 2000s were insane.
@ 12:50 you mad that bat mad.. I'll still send you my 33-30 1996 Black Magic Fam and keep it. Yall deserve it
This video hit me right in the feels…and so did the Black Magic. We made fun of it back in the day because it felt like crap and had the sweet spot way too far out. HOWEVER: The Black Magic holds the world record for the most appearances on statuettes and mom buttons. Everyone always picked the Black Magic on picture day. Even like 5 years after everyone was done using it. We used to think the Air Attacks didn’t look that good when they came out, but I absolutely feel the opposite today. The new black Magic is sexy though, I think they absolutely nailed the looks again. If we do a bracket on looks alone, ink Black Magic into your final four.
The shirt is probably from Amador Valley High School in Pleasanton, CA. Played em a few times in league during the season. Their mascot is The Dons and their colors are purple and yellow so I have a pretty good feeling that the shirts is from the one in Cali.
Amador Valley High School Dons - I graduated from there in 1990. Yes, purple and yellow coloraway. Let's go!
I swung a Black Magic in 1983 in HS. Was badass back then!!
The High school shirt Cam is wearing is Amador Valley High I grew up there and saw that shirt everywhere
Love the video I’ve been waiting so long for this video I have a 1996-97 Easton black magic and it just hits nukes keep up the great bangers and dingers
Tbh I knew nothing about bats until I watched this channel thank you for making these videos fun and informative. You guys rock! Keep it up!
Can confirm, because I played with the OG Black Magic, that you only had a 3 inch sweet spot on the barrel and anything lower your hands were feeling it... But it was the hottest bat we had and that's why you get all the hype with the OG Black Magic.
90-94 HS player here. Nothing held a candle to “the devil”. 34/30 LOUISVILLE SLUGGER RED TPX (TPXFBXV). Dropped absolute nukes with that bat. I’ve got one in pretty good condition if you wanna swing it.
YAAASS!!! Bro... FINALLY y'all got the bat I gamed with back in 1992! Such an awesome trip down memory lane.... Thanks, y'all.
You need the 80’s Black Magic - the one you’re using was a later fail by BM. John Olerud (PAC -12 Player of the Century) Pete Incaviglia Phil Nevin Will Clark etc & the rest of my D-1 contemporaries had no problem finding the barrel on the original Black Magic. Check out 80’s CWS highlights and you’ll see the OG stick.
Broke out my 1983 Black Magic for my son, just graduated HS, and is playing D2 this upcoming school yr, it still had a lot of pop, he was absolutely crushing with it, his Lville select power is no where near as lively.....he hit several 400ft plus with the bat and me throwing about 75mph to him.
I walked into my dugout as a freshman on the team for the first time to see an old black magic sitting in the bat hold. I was so surprised
I was like 13 when the Black Magic came out. It was the first bat that anyone could manage to hit a homer with in little league. My brother is 3 years behind me and the difference in the bats he had and my class had was night and day. We had like 3 homers in the league the entire season across all teams (all with a Black Magic). They had like 30. When the Black Magic came out though, there was nothing else in its class.
My personal experience 1980s-90s bats were that Easton was a great bat in the 80s, but they got left behind in the early-90s. Easton also started playing with composite designs that I believe didn't catch on because of price.
I have a black magic 35 inch from the 80’s
I swung what was probably an earlier version of the Black Magic in high school. It was black with the traditional Easton logo in gold.
I'm not disappointed to find out It wasn't that great. Just proves I was a better hitter than my son 🤣🤣. Imagine if I had a voodoo one to work with....
The old logo ones were still the bat in the early 90s. The one in this video was mid 90s. They also started to have the texture barrel around then too. This Black Magic wasn't their top of the line Easton then either. The EA70s were better.
Todays bats make average hitters good and good great. It’s been lie that got the last 15-20 years. You really find out who can hit when everyone swings a wood bat.
By 1995 The Black Magic was only in the bat bag in case of a bear attack. The first model 2-3/4 was all black with gold writing “pro baseball” inscribed on it. Albert Belle hit them in the lights in Baton Rouge with one. We were all using TPX when this model you’re swinging was out
RED LOUISVILLE SLUGGER TPX BAT 34" 30 oz. MODEL TPXFBXV in HS from 90-94…absolute bomb dropper. The black magic never got used on our team. Sat in the bat rack with no touches.
He hit Tiger Stadium parking lot
Have you swung either of the EA70s from like 93/94? Black/Yellow was a drop 4 and the Maroon/Gold was a drop 3. Those were my high school bats and loved them, I graduated in 94. The reflex was the first one I remember that the ball just seemed to come off at crazy speeds and that was a few years later. I also remember in the early 90s a bat called the Ultra Light.
I still have my old Eastons. I’ve got the gold/maroon one and it was a mortar! We didn’t know what it’s official name was back then since there was no Google😁. We called it Goldie or The Maroon-Kaboom.
I had that Black Magic bat back in the 90’s. It always sounded like you straight pulverized the baseball. Brings back memories
My favorite bat coming up as a kid. So glad they brought it back.
I graduated in 1993 and always used a 34 Black Magic in high school. I used to hit some monster shots with it. They were on the heavy side but super hot. They tended to die fairly quickly. I'd get a new one every season.
Great video guys and your def right. I grew up swinging the black magic and it was a great bat but it was clunky and had a very small sweet spot. The reflex, which came out just after,is the black magic just refined and lighter with a huge, forgiving, sweet spot that changed everything and the hot bat era began.
My dad played with a guy his senior year of high school who was 6'10" and played basketball at Clemson, and he hit a ball 450+ into a pecan orchard with the OG Black Magic. Just insane (this was like 1984)
Bros that hit with it in the early 90's are 47ish now bro. I hit with LS TPX in high school. If my memory serves I bought one in time for fall ball in '91. Made me a dugout hero for a while everybody wanted to hit with my bat. Some bats still had that 'tink' sound back then but not like these days. First game I went to see my kid play about 15 years ago I laughed at the sound of bats. I told him I remember more of that crunchier sound if you made solid contact on some heat, but he didn't believe me. Still nothing like wood bat. But thanks, I forgot that sound. Also, when home boy in the video made contact not in the sweet spot and spun around with his hands in shock, dude I sympathize. My first two years of varsity ball I'd feel that pain nearly every at bat and every batting practice until I found the sweet spot, and then sometimes thereafter if the pitcher had any surprising late movement on his heat LOL. Cool video though, memories!
My son just wrapped up coaching the Freshman baseball team at that school. Great program.
I had a green Mizuno with yellow text in the late 90s. 2¾" barrel. I eventually cracked it after a couple seasons. But man, that thing had POP unlike anything else I've ever used before, or no since.
Had a three home run game with an Easton B9 Black Magic in the mid 90's. Used that bat for 15 years.
I saw college guys swinging this in the regionals and couldn’t find it online anywhere. I guess Easton schools may have gotten an early opportunity to swing them. Definitely not the hottest BBCOR to swing or even the best Easton really, but it looks so badass that I’d probably swing it anyway.
From what i remember (I was in High school through the late 90's) The CU31 alloy bats werent very good. They got hot when they went the Reflex which was C405 and then hotter again when they went EA70 and Carbon core in 96 - 98. Reflexes were used in the Olypics in 1996 by USA and Australia and a few other countries. Scandium I think came in around 1998 with the Grey Redline and the 777 bats. Z2k was obviously 2000 where the tech was insane. So it was the last 5 - 7 years of the 90's were the sweet spot of juiced bats.
The EA70 Eastons in the mid-90s were gold colored. They were better than CU31 for sure by then.
Bro!!! I swung the green TPX all through high school! We absolutely wrecked that bat. It put 15 homer’s on my stats from my sophomore year through my senior. 9 of which were my senior year. Amazing times to be a baseball player.
Silver and Blue Black Magic came out a few years later. That one also introduced the high pitched ping. The clunky sound was more in line with the Purple/Gold Easton React.
I had a 1993 Easton Black Magic. I hit one out with this bat when I was a senior in high school in the biggest field in and another when I was a junior in another very big field. Loved that bat. Probably doesn't help that it is 30 years old and was probably well used in its heyday.
We used Black Magics and Green Eastons through High School and into college 89-93. I coached HS Ball starting in 2000. The bats were crazy different.
I absolutely loved the Black Magic series as a BP bat when I played in the mid and upper 90s. Reflex for games with the same length/weight.
The old black magic was incredible that was my bat from 11 up until highschool when I went with the TPS
The late 90s version with the black barrel that says black magic in dark blue in the barrel is the best one. The 99 silver Redline -5 Redline C Core is the hottest bat ever. Even hotter than the Z2K. Get your hands on that one.
I still have my black magic from 1990. Used it in high school, college and semi pro. Mine is 34/31.
That OG sound is epic!
I swung a different Black Magic in the late 80’s. I’m pretty sure that’s the OG. I’m sure both of these bats out perform that brick but it was hot for its time. I remember a green Easton that was a “long barrel” it was rare and hard to find if you ever get one of those it would be a cool review for us old dudes that are in Senior softball now lol. Love the energy guys, great videos. Subed.
So much nostalgia watching this.
I used to have one of the graphite bats. It was so loud, it made the infielders flinch.
HAHAHA I used to use the '92 Black Magic. I was 10 so I wasn't hitting bombs with it, but it had some good pop for a kid! Nice video!
When I was a kid, the Black Magic was the holy grail. I didn't even have any friends who owned one because of the cost. Hell, I'm so old, I'm talking about the Black Magic pre-Bam Bam Barrell. It was only surpassed when Louisville Slugger released the first of the TPX line.
Gotta check out the 99/00 TPS Omaha Gold. That bat was a monster for me in HS. In fact still have it because I never wanna let it go. Won't ever use it again but will never forget it.
So many good memories on the old black magic
Great vid and very helpful for people like me looking for bats… keep it up ya’ll
one of my favorite bats growing up
I had several versions of the Black Magic, starting with the 3" barrel that they allowed my 13yr old season in 1990.
My dad talks about this thing all the time
I had the 1991 “B5” which was 33” -4… the Black Magic back then was heavier and swung even heavier… but it looked cool because it was black.
I used that bat when I was 13. Probably the perspective that made it legendary was the bats that were available before. Black magic is also a pretty legendary name for a bat.
I had the 2000’s red and black black magic and when you sweet spotted it it was still a beast
At our 14u tournament this past weekend a kid had one it's really nice looking in person very pingy sadly but good for us he only fouled off a couple and struck out 3 times so couldn't see how it performed on field. My son has been absolutely killing it with the 2020 Fuze Hybrid 360 had a one hopper to the LF pole at 330 so he has no interest in the Black Magic lol and bailed on his Voodoo One and Goods One even though he's always been a 1 piece kid. Soooooo glad you guys reviewed it otherwise we would've missed out on it.
AVHS is Amador Valley High school in Pleasanton, California. Played them in both baseball and football from 04-08. Their football field had a jumbotron which I had never seen before for H.S.
Great video Will! The CU31 alloy of the 90's was something else alright. There's another version of the Black Magic that came in black, blue, and silver. 95-96 year range. I swung and destroyed both bats. I found the blue model much hotter than the yellow. It also had a funny "bump" in the taper that the yellow didn't. I think that model deserves a chance to redeem itself.
Yep 36 and one of those old guys and I had black magic because well I used bats 5 years or so after “hot” years when the price dipped but this completely explains my warring track power I had and could never get that perfect shot!!!
That old bat is how bat's sounded when I played. Best bats ever made. I'll never get used to that TINK! sound of the new bats
Black magic!!! One of my favorite bats growing up playing in 96-2007
My dad used the Black Magic in the 90s, all of his home runs with that bat.
Guy I work with said the black magic redline…might even be a BESR bat, was hot as hell. He swung the Black Magic too. Have to check what year though. He played pro ball in the 80’s and used alloy when he was out of the league but still playing.
Rocked the 88 BM. Still have it.
I swung the Black Magin in 87-90. Thing I will say is I used the same bat my Sr year in HS and JC and an Adult League. Bats lasted back then and I loved it (my dad was mad that he had to pay $105 for a bat - LOL). I am now 52 and have swung a few of my son's BBCOR bats. Todays BBCOR is much better.
5 seconds in and holy crap is that sound is just shooting concentrated nostalgia straight into my veins.
That classic Easton logo is so clean
awesome. I had couple versions back in the day and couple TPX's
Great video, keep it up! When you get all the 2023 bats can you do a stream of unboxing them?
What I would love to see in the next video is a Easton mako bat review
Easton is doing something really cool with kinda bringing old bat backs
I remember the black magic, still loved my White Thunder
Will you guys should get your hands on a old Redline from the 90s!!
I played HS baseball from 1991-1993 and I have never heard of the Easton Black Magic until now. I watched a current video of Eric Sim swinging one (not sure which year). He said the bat he was using was illegal and I did a search to see what the Black Magic was all about.
I graduated hs in 01. We had an old black magic as a team bat, but it looked different than this one. It had the block Easton logo on it. It was already beat to hell by time I got to school. The bat that we all used was a TPX c405. I think it was black with like teal or green graphics
Definitely swung a black magic a lot in my junior high/ high school days. I remember loving it, but I was a singles hitter all day. Might be why I didn't mind the lack of pop.
I tried to find my old bReflex C-Core from ‘98 to send to you. That bat was gas!
we had a black magic in high school 91-95, no one used it. Everyone loved the louisville tpx blue and gold
Sick theme Will! Been lovin the vids lately!👍❤️💪
I will say meeting Will at cws was one the best parts of the event so far.
3:42, "get off me" 🤦🏾♂️ as the ball reaches the track 😂
I had that bat for Legion ball in the 90s that thing absolutely launched the ball.
We weren't allowed to you use the Black Magic in teener ball and legion ball in the late 80's early 90s. But I remember using it in softball in the summer of 90.
Those 92' 93' Black Magic had a very small "SWEET SPOT". I still have a few of my bats upstairs. The "sweet spots" only seemed to get bigger from 92-98. In college we used wood and I tried once going back to aluminum, but once I found the "sweet spot" on a R161, there was nothing comparable. Took me about a week of hitting multiple times everyday to consistently find the sweet spot on a 34inch/31ounce. Grew-up swinging -5 ounces until I started lifting and filling out my sophomore year 94'. great bats during those years
Can you please do a vid on the 2022 meta vs 2021 meta
I graduated 93. Played minor league ball. I hit bombs with that. 450 plus. But also we used Baum bats in rookie league and hit monster bombs with that during Bp. A a few in games.
The Black Magic was always a PoS. I was playing little league in the early 2000s and the Black Magic (little league version) was a $39.99 bat. A step up from a Louisville Silver Slugger but not even close to your TPX or 777s of the world.
Comment on the Don Squad shirt: It looks like Amador Valley High School in Pleasanton, CA (I'm an older alum, and can't confirm). Yes, I was in love with the early 80's Black Magic.
my cousin had a black magic, i thought thing looked so cool i loved swinging it.