Camelot by the Bay couldn't last forever, but you have to wonderif the downfall was due in part to the Giants ignoring baseball traditions,such as: Boning your bat: Joe DiMaggio and Pete Rose did it, rubbed their bats on animalbones to harden the wood. The Diamondbacks have a large cow boneattached to their dugout railing. The Giants don't bone their bats,although there's no evidence that boning is effective on balsa-woodbats.