Sam Holman has Barry Bonds, Steven Sutherland has baseball's future.

Holman makes Sam Bats for professional players, and his most prominent client is Bonds of the San Francisco Giants. Sutherland is the president of Combat Baseball, whose composite bats are a huge hit at the Little League level.

Together they cover every conceivable market available in the baseball With the baseball world looking on last Sunday, Dalton Carriker used a Combat B1 composite bat to hit a home run over the right-field wall to give Warner Robins, Georgia, a 3-2 victory against Japan in the 2007 Little League World Series Championship Game at Williamsport, Pa.

Each member of the Warner Robins squad used a composite bat produced by Combat, which is based on Canotek Road, as did all players on another U.S. team. Most starters on two other clubs and at least one player on all but a couple of the 16 teams in the tournament also swung Combat products.

Two years ago, the East Nepean Eagles represented C......