Metal baseball bats are an abomination.
Baseball bats should be made of ash, as God and Alexander Joy Cartwright intended.
Hooray for the verdict.
you forgot the /sarcasm tag... to your post methinks.
If the rules can decide that a baseball bat can’t be a tennis-racket type thing, then they can also decide that bats can’t be aluminum or anything else that carries them further and faster.
I can get more homeruns by using a super-ball. I can get fewer by allowing the pitcher to throw a golf ball. But, I don’t.
Not all wood bats are ash.
Wood bats cost a fortune now and when I played we broke so many that bat bag got light by the end of the season.
The old ash has been picked over, Maple bats are fairly common.
If you were into woodworking you’d know there are blanks available for more than just ash and one thing they have in common - None are cheap.
Kids who aren’t talented enough to pick the splinters out of their butt are far more common than when I was a kid.
I don’t have an opinion on this verdict. But, the baseball league ordered the aluminum bats, and the company was only providing them with what they wanted.
That said, as a parent of a young baseball player, I wish they didn’t use aluminum bats. The ball is hit off that kind of bat harder. Then, when there’s some lightening, the kids have to stop playing. I never knew baseball was so dangerous until my son started playing. I wish he’d play basketball instead. ;-)
Are you serious? This is nuts! If the kid could play baseball he probably wouldn’t have got hurt! Accidents happen! That’s like saying a ticked ball beans a kid, seriously injures the kid and it’s the balls fault or the baseball makers fault because they made it too hard!!!!