Protective safety wrap for baseball bat

A method for treating a wooden baseball bat to prevent the release of fragments should the baseball bat shatter during due comprising the step of:

• wrapping an elongated piece of polymeric film around at least a transition portion of the baseball bat by wrapping, at a start location along the bat, in a spiral motion such that the polymeric film is wrapped completely around the bat to define an initial winding and then wrapping the polymeric film about the bat to form a series of successive windings with the polymeric film of each winding never completely overlapping an underlying winding and terminating the successive windings at an end location along the bat so as to form a two layer wrap around at least the transition portion of the baseball bat, wherein the piece has a first side edge, an opposite second side edge, a first tapered region terminating at a first end thereof and a second tapered region terminating in an opposite second end thereof, wherein within each of the first and second tapered regions, the first and second side edges converge and wherein the piece includes a main section located between the first and second tapered regions and the first and second side edges are parallel to one another along the length of the main section, and wherein the back surface includes an adhesive for adhering the polymeric film to the baseball bat and to any underlying winding of polymeric film.