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Originally posted by hukonrt
Comparing last year's list to the one for this year, I noticed that several of the bats from 2003 are not on the 2004 banned list. This aroused my curosity so I ventured to the ASA website for the listing of 2004 banned bats and saw the same list as on our handy dandy laminated umpire card. Further investigation of the "Certified" bats shows that several of the 2003 banned bats appear on the 2004 certified listing. The following is a link to the Certified bats for 2004: http://www.asasoftball.com/about/get...urerDetail.asp

In particular, the Worth ESTL appears twice on the certified listing, (1) model: "ESTL Recertified", description: "with ASA Recertification Mark", last updated: "9/30/2003" and the other (2) model: "ESTL", description" (none), last updated: "11/26/2003" just above (1). (If printed out it appears on page 14 of 17).

This seems to be a very popular piece of equipment in our league (last year anyway) and surely there are many still around.

Now for the question(s): Does this mean that the ESTL is no longer banned as of 11/26/2003? (Obviously if it carries the Recertification mark it is legal.) What other markings are required if any?

For NFHS in this state, we must see the bat on the list of good bats...end of story.