It sounds like a riddle: Russians don't play baseball, but they buy 500,000 bats per year. Why?<br /><br />The answer: Road rage. <br /><br />Bats are often kept in cars as weapons to be used in road rage incidents. The baseball bats can be bought anywhere — even at gas stations.<br /><br />Russians may not yet appreciate baseball, but it turns out they'll still go to bat.
