[Irish Eyes]

Some hitters have found that maple bats perform better than ash bats. Maple bats tend to burst into pieces while ash bats splinter with less dangerous effect. I believe the meeting will take up this issue and, perhaps, the maple bat will be discontinued.

Thanks for the reply, I heard that there was a near miss of hitting people in the owners box at one of the games, came at them like a spear.

[Misterioso]

A coach for the Colorado Rockies, in a game against the Dodgers, was struck very close to his eye by a fragment of an exploded maple bat just last week. The barrel of these broken bats routinely end up sticking in the turf, javelin style.