HANDLES FOR BATS

A bat handle for attachment to plastic bottles or containers in the form of an elongated tubular plastic handle having an internally threaded tubular end portion for threaded engagement with the threads normally provided on the neck of a plastic beverage bottle or other similar bottles or containers to form a combination bat handle and bottle that can be used in the nature of a baseball bat, softball or the like so that children may use the combination handle and bottle as a toy bat for batting lightweight balls such as hollow plastic or rubber balls with or without apertures in the periphery thereof, foam plastic balls, sponge rubber balls, inflated balls and the like. The bat handle is simulative in color, shape and apearance to an actual bat handle and includes a knob on the end thereof remote from the internally threaded end portion. The knob end of the bat handle is provided with a concave recess by which the combination may be used as a batting tee with the flat bottom of the beverage bottle or container stablizing the combination on a supporting surface so that a ball may be held stationarily and in an elevated position for striking with another bat. By providing screw threaded internal end portions on each end of the hollow handle, two plastic bottles may be connected together in alignment for use as a toy baton, dumbbells and the like.