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Tin vs. Lumber
There has been great change throughout time in the game of baseball. One of the biggest changes in the college game we have seen is the baseball bats used. Before 1974, in the NCAA, the only bats used were wooden. Since then, mostly metal or aluminum bats have been used. This has caused great change in the college game, some say for better, some say for worse.
For as long as I have been around aluminum bats, there has always been the question of safety. Each year we hear about a college pitcher being injured from a line drive off of an aluminum bat. Some say this is because the aluminum bats allow the ball to come off the bat quicker, but studies have shown that the exit speeds' of the balls coming off a wood and aluminum bat are nearly the same. This leaves the Moment of Inertia (MOI) as a possible cause. The MOI is simply where the weight is based in the bat. Wood bats can have the exact same MOI therefore causing the same so-called injuries that the aluminum bats cause (Russell). There has also been a study which compared the number of injuries in the NCAA and the Cape Cod League occurring from wood bats and aluminum bats (Douglas). The study showed that there are in fact more injuries caused from wood bats than aluminum. Most of the wood bat injuries were from thrown or splintered bats in which some resulted in serious injury. Rick Helling knows all too well about the injuries wood bats can cause. Helling, who was pitching for the class AAA Nashville Sounds last year, threw an inside pitch to a batter and shattered his bat which caused a jagged 8 inch shard of the bat to be impaled in his arm. The incident was so gruesome one of his teammates fainted. Recently there have been more injuries occurring such as Helling's which involved a wood bat than those involving aluminum.
Some baseball traditionalists say that the aluminum baseball bat is ruining the integrity of the game. They believe that...
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