A Southern California-based baseball bat manufacturer, Easton Sports, spent more than $134,000 lobbying the New York City Council to oppose a bill that would ban nonwood bats from high school baseball games, according to the most recent lobbyist reports filed with the city.

The council approved the baseball bat bill yesterday, and Speaker Christine Quinn said she is confident there are sufficient votes to override a possible veto from Mayor Bloomberg.

Easton, which sells metal and wooden baseball bats and claims to have produced the first true aluminum bat, in 1969, likely spent even more money lobbying the council over the past few months, as it became clear the bill was gaining support and heading for a vote.

Easton’s lobbying tab for the first few months of 2007 will be made public on April 14. No other major baseball bat manufacturers are listed in the city’s lobbying records.

Easton paid a lobbyist from Detroit, David Ettinger, $68,772.50 to lobby the council on the proposed bill in 2006, and paid him $17,845 in 2002 to lobby the council on an earlier version of the same bill, according to reports filed with the city clerk.

Mr. Ettinger lobbied council members Alan Gerson, Sara Gonzalez, Darlene Mealy, Melissa Mark Viverito, Miguel Martinez, Dennis Gallagher, Ms. Quinn, the bill’s leading advocate, James Oddo, and their staff members in 2006, the report states. He also lobbied Deputy Mayor for Economic Development and Rebuilding Daniel Doctoroff, as well the director of the Mayor’s Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, Haeda Mihaltses.

Mr. Ettinger incurred $2,514.29 in expenses for his Easton work in 2006. He spent $705.62 on photocopies and $150 for New York’s lobby registration fee. He spent $613.50 on support staff salaries and $1,045.17 on other expenses, but did not list them.

Easton paid lobbyist Stanley Schlein $15,000 to lobby the council in 2006 on “legislative issues” and reimbursed Mr. Schlein for $745 in expenses, according to the lobbyist report.

It also paid Kasirer Consulting $24,999.99 to lobby the council in 2006 and filed a report stating it spent $8,333 on its own efforts to lobby the council last year.

Opponents to the ban hired a political communications firm, Knickerbocker SKD, to fight the bill in the press.

“We are obviously disappointed with today’s vote, but we applaud the council members who recognized the facts and voted against this wrongheaded bill,” a vice president of Easton Sports, Jim Darby, said in a statement yesterday. “We are hopeful that Mayor Bloomberg will also recognize that this ban will neither enhance safety nor improve the game of baseball and veto this bill.”

On its Web site, Easton showcases 13 different types of aluminum and composite bats for young players and displays only one wooden bat for youth, made of professional grade maple.

Baseballcorner.com, a Web site selling baseball equipment, sells a variety of Easton bats ranging from a $49.99 wooden bat to Easton’s $379.99 Stealth Composite bat.

Mr. Oddo, who described his fight against baseball bat manufacturers as much like the face-off between David and Goliath, said he expects the bill’s opponents would sue the city if the bill became law. He said the council has worked hard to establish a record showing they have reason to ban the nonwooden bats. Mr. Oddo and other supporters of the bill say metal bats are dangerous because they propel baseballs faster and further than wood bats.

“It was a hard sell when you go up against big money,” Mr. Oddo said. “It’s always a tough fight.”