[oldenuff2no]

This is one of the stupidest things I have ever heard. I have coached many youth baseball teams and my own son played organized ball for many years. Each year we would have to buy a new bat for him that was a little longer. Good light metal bats are about a hundred bucks each. Cheap ones are $20.
My son got hurt worse by getting hit by the pitcher than he did by any line drives hit his way and his home on the field was second base. If the young ones had to swing wooden bats most of them would never hit the ball. They couldn't get their bats around fast enough.
This is just pure greed and wanting to blame someone for a terrible accident.

[Ditto]

If the young ones had to swing wooden bats most of them would never hit the ball. They couldn't get their bats around fast enough.

Funny. 50 years ago, when I was a 'young one' I could hit a ball pretty damn good with a wooden bat.