Abstract: A practice baseball bat having an elongated shaft of predetermined length. One end of the shaft has a handgrip portion having a plurality of spaced apart and aligned raised portions which extend between the fingers of a batter's hands so that when the bat is swung, the raised portions will be moved from a first up position to a position in the direction of which the bat is swung. The bat further has an elongated enlarged cylindrical ball contact portion which extends intermediate the ends of the shaft and adjacent the other end of the shaft, the ball contact portion being coaxial with the shaft. The other end of the shaft defining a nub extending from one end of the enlarged portion to the end of the bat.