[supercat]

The topic of risk and injuries aside, I far prefer both the sound and feel of wooden bats. In fact I’m still using actual wooden (persimmon) woods on the golf course for the same reason. Just makes playing both games more enjoyable for me.

I agree that there's something 'real' about a wooden bat, but on the other hand aluminum bats are less likely to break. I wonder whether it would be possible to make a composite bat that would handle (and maybe even sound) like a wood bat, but be less prone to breakage.

[Mr. Mojo]

Some of the new fancy composite metal (golf) woods sound/feel fairly close to real wood. ....although not quite. Expensive though. So I suspect similarly composed metal baseball bats wouldn’t be cheap either. And that would kind of defeat the purpose of going metal — saving money.

[mbraynard]

But what’s cooler than breaking a bat off of a fastball? Really.