A baseball bat is a long cylindrical wooden or aluminum object used for the game of baseball before the outbreak. After the outbreak, it is a favored weapon of many survivors for use against walkers.
Pre-Apocalypse[]
Before the outbreak, baseball bats were in common use for the game of baseball. Javier Garcia was a professional baseball player before he was kicked out of the league for illegal gambling, namely betting on himself.
Post-Apocalypse[]
Original TV Series[]
When Rick Grimes is rescued from a herd by Glenn Rhee, Morales and T-Dog kill two walkers with baseball bats, one being Wayne Dunlap.
Baseball bats appeared to be a favored weapon of the members of the Atlanta Survivor Camp who only had a few guns. When a small herd attacked the camp, both Morales and Jim fought off the walkers with baseball bats, killing several, including the one that had fatally wounded Amy Harrison.
Maggie is wielding a baseball bat when she arrives on horseback and rescues Andrea from a walker.
While clearing out the prison, Andrew uses a baseball bat. However, he drops it when Rick kicks him to the ground.
In Terminus, captured survivors would be hit over the head by a butcher using a baseball bat to stun and incapacitate them, before a second butcher would slit their throats with a knife, killing them. During the escape from Terminus, Glenn took one of the bats and used it to put down a walker attacking the Crazed Man and to prevent the man from reanimating.
Glenn later recovered a wooden baseball bat from the wreckage of a house in the Shirewilt Estates and used it against a walker attacking Noah. Glenn subsequently used it in an effort to break the lock on the community's gates and to put down several invading walkers as the group made their escape.
The favored weapon of Negan Smith was a barbed wire wrapped baseball bat that he'd named Lucille in honor of his dead wife. The bat had originally belonged to Laura who had hit Negan over the head with it when they first met and then who provided him with the bat because his only other weapon was an empty gun. After returning home and discovering Lucille dead of a suicide and reanimated, Negan had cut barbed wire from his fence and wrapped it around the bat. As the leader of the Saviors, Negan would use Lucille to kill both living people and walkers, including Glenn and Abraham Ford. After his defeat at the hands of Rick Grimes, Lucille was abandoned by the Militia where it fell at the site of the final battle with the Saviors and became buried over the years.
While hunting walkers near Alexandria, Michonne used a nearby baseball bat, but was reminded of Lucille. She later read a book on baseball to Judith Grimes and was again disturbed by the reminder of Lucille.
After Negan's escape from Alexandria, Brandon, a young former Savior, fashioned Negan a new version of Lucille out of a baseball bat and barbed wire which Negan began wearing across his back on a strap. Negan adopted the bat as his new weapon, killing walkers with it before being captured by the Whisperers. After earning Alpha's trust, Negan was allowed to use his bat while working with the group, at one point using it to put down a mortally wounded Coalition soldier. After being captured by Daryl, Negan had his new bat taken away from him and did not appear to ever attempt to retrieve it. In turn, Daryl appeared to simply abandon the bat rather than take it with them.
After being exiled to Leah's Cabin, Negan returned to the tree where he had fought Rick and dug up Lucille. However, the old bat finally broke when Negan used it to kill a nearby walker. Negan subsequently burned Lucille and destroyed it.
Following the destruction of Lucille, Negan abandoned his use of baseball bats as a weapon, instead coming to favor a long crowbar.
While robbing Cooper's House, Daryl Dixon grabs and uses an aluminum baseball bat in the garage to put down a few walkers before dropping the weapon again.
Fear the Walking Dead[]
When the congregation of Valle de Guadalupe, Baja California prepare to go and confront Celia Flores, baseball bats are a part of their arsenal of weapons. However, they are all poisoned to death by Celia before they can use them.
When Madison's Group arrives in town and encounters the zombified congregation, the group grabs the congregation's dropped weapons to put them down with. Travis Manawa grabs one of the baseball bats and uses it as his weapon of choice against the congregants, putting several of them down.
Efrain Morales uses a baseball bat to put down a walker that gets too close while transporting an injured Daniel Salazar to safety.
Telltale Series[]
While trying to escape from Savannah, Georgia, Lee Everett and Clementine become trapped in a jewelry store. Dying of a walker bite, Lee directs Clementine to take a baseball bat from under the counter and use it to smash out a window. As Clementine struggles with a walker that was trapped inside of the room, Lee manages to kick her the bat and Clementine uses it to put the walker down and take his gun and keys.
When leaving his family home, Javier Garcia contemplates taking a signed baseball as a keepsake, one that is sitting upon a table next to a bat which is resting upon a stand. However, he ultimately decides against taking either.
When Javier's Group is exiled from New Richmond, David includes an aluminum baseball bat in the duffle bag that he packs for his brother. David wraps a map leading to the New Frontier's Warehouse around the bat for the group. Javier begins carrying the bat, using it against walkers. When he gets into trouble against two walkers, Clementine briefly uses it to put them down. During a fight between the two men, Badger takes the bat from Javier and attempts to kill him with it. However, Javier mortally wounds Badger with his own shotgun first. Javier then has the option to use his bat to finish him off and prevent reanimation and, in a fit of anger, to potentially smash his head in revenge for Badger's murder of Mariana. After Joan has Javier and David arrested, the bat is taken away from him. However, he finds it in New Richmond's armory and dons the bat as a weapon once again, using it against several walkers on his group's way to collect a bulldozer. If Javier chooses to go after David and Gabriel, he decapitates a passing walker while riding a motorcycle. Quickly running out of ammo against the herd surrounding David's truck, Javier uses his bat to put down most of the walkers and save Gabriel and David. (Determinant)
During a card game her first night at Ericson's Boarding School, Clementine mentions meeting a famous baseball player and, although she doesn't know if he was any good at it, "he was pretty good with a bat."
Novel Series[]
During his first night at Wiltshire Estates, Brian Blake arms himself with a metal baseball bat that he finds in one of the boys' bedrooms of the house that Philip's Group is group is staying in after hearing a noise in the attic. However, after opening the tanning bed that the noise is coming from, it turns out to be a rat rather than a walker and Brian's swing only destroys the tanning bed's control panel and some toys that were being kept inside of it.
After David Chalmers dies and reanimates, Philip Blake grabs April Chalmers' Hank Aaron autographed metal baseball bat and bashes in David's head with three blows.
Destinies[]
Soon after Rick Grimes' awakening from his coma, he is guided through King County by Morgan Jones who directs Rick to a baseball bat to use against the nearby walkers. Rick is able to use the bat to help clear a path through walkers to a police cruiser to take him to Atlanta.
Baseball bats are often used by Rick and Shane's Group against both the living and the undead.
Killed Victims[]
TV Universe[]
- Viper 2
- Craven
- Wayne Dunlap (Zombified)
- Crazed Man (Before Reanimation)
- Abraham Ford
- Glenn Rhee
- Gary (Before Reanimation)
- Several unnamed congregation members (Zombified)
- Several unnamed choir boys (Zombified)
- At least 20 unnamed people
- Several unnamed West Georgia Correctional Facility prisoners (Zombified)
- 1 unnamed Savior (Before Reanimation)
- 1 unnamed Coalition member (Out of Mercy)
- 1 unnamed Commonwealth resident (Zombified)
- Numerous counts of zombies and unnamed people
Comic Universe[]
- David Chalmers (Zombified)
- Chris (Zombified)
- Badger (Determinant)
- 1 unnamed jewelry store security guard (Zombified)
- Numerous counts of zombies
Destinies[]
- Numerous counts of zombies and unnamed people
Melee Weapons
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| Blades | Axe • Balisong • Bayonet • Bec de Corbin • Bush Axe • Fire Axe • Halberd • Hatchet • Kama • Katana • Knife • Kukri • Machete • Meat Cleaver • Pickaxe • Pizza Rocker • Push Dagger • Rock Pick • Saw • Scythe • Sickle • Sword |
| Sharp Weapons | Awl • Bear Trap • Boat Hook • Cane • Fire Poker • Hay Hook • Kill Stick • Lawn Edge • Morning Stars • Pitchfork • Pool Cue • Road Spikes • S-Pole • Screwdriver • Spear • Spike Strip |
| Blunt Weapons | Baseball Bat • Baton • Brass Knickles • Car Club • Crowbar • Digging Bar • Fire Extinguisher • Golf Club • Hammer • Long Handle Weeder • Monkey Wrench • Rebar • Shovel • Sledgehammer • Staff • Tire Iron • Wrench |
| Prosthetics | Aaron's Arm • Agent 46's Arm • Alicia's Arm • Amy's Arm • Davon's Leg • Hank's Hand • Hershel's Leg • Jeff's Leg • Merle's Arm • Rick's Hand • Kenny |
| Signature Weapons | Abraham's Tomahawk Axe • Ajax's Sword • Alicia's Sharpened Barrel Shroud • Axel's Iron Mace • Axel's Shield • Aya's Police Rod • Beta's Knife • Beale's Sword • Blaine's Garden Shears • Brody's Hammer • Byte's Bladed Mic • Cameron's Shield • Carol's Knife • Caroline's Whip • Catherine's Barbell • Chairles • Circuit's Polearm • Circuit's Shield • Clementine's Fire Axe • Clementine's Hatchet • Corvis' Sword • Dakota's Knife • Daniel's Folding Straight Razor • Dario's Sword • Daryl's Knives • Daryl's Morning Star • David's Pipe Knife • Diego's Saw • Elijah's Kamas • Elton's Axe • Elton's Fisherman • Emile's Battle Axe • Emily's Shock Rod • Eric's Fire Axe • Ezekiel's Sword • Fanya's Bolas • Fynn's Battle Axe • Gideon's Spike Strip • Guide's Bear Trap • Han's Tire Hammer • Henry's Staff • Hudson's Traffic Sign • Imani's Knife • Iris' Brambled Mace • Isabelle's Morning Stars • Jacki's Police Batons • Jarvis' Saw • Javier's Baseball Bat • Javier's Hammer • Jeremiah's Crucifix • Jerry's Battle Axe • Jesus' Sword • Jiang's Spear • Josiah's Shovel • Judith's Katana • Kingston's Shield • Lady Z's Sword • Lang's Kama • Laura's Chain Weight • Lee's Fire Axe • Lee's Hatchet • Lee's Meat Cleaver • Losang's Staff • Lyle's Hammer • Madison's Hammer • Magna's Warhmmaer • Marge's Dual Wield Wrenches • Matthew's Knife • Mercer's Axes • Michelle's Hooks • Michonne's Katana • Miho's Naginata • Morgan's Shield • Morgan's Staff • Nicholas' Saws • Nick's Spear • Ophelia's Circuit Staff • Oliver's Shield • Preach's Cross Staff • R's Concrete Hammer • Rania's Handcuffs • Reynaldo's Battle Axe • Rick's Hatchet • Roadie's Knife • Rosita's Macuahitl • Ryan's Saw • Sandy's Brass Knuckles • Sarah's Shield • Siddiq's Saw • Silas' Wrench • Shane's Shield • Souta's Shield • Stalker's Spear • Steve's Flail • Strand's Sword • Tara's Sword • Titan's Baseballbat Mace • Tylor's Throwing Knives • Tyreese's Hammer • Violet's Meat Cleaver • Wangfa's Sword • Young-Min's Knives • Hilda • Lucille • Mandy • Shiloh • Soul Cleaver |
| Miscellaneous Weapons | Amper Serum • Cattle Prod • Compactor • Salt Lick • Shield • Street Sign • Whip |