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Don,
At the national school, Henry & Walt said "don't go looking for trouble." The main emphasis would be placed on championship play. League and regular tournament play would be governed by the "if it looks like a bat...it is a bat." ASA is unofficially encouraging good umpire judgement for bat guidelines. The grandfathered bat list was to become history.
In our local UIL/FED meeting last month, we were instructed to follow the same guidelines.
If you buy a new bat via the internet, you can still get bats without the approval sticker or manufacturer's stamp. Individuals were buying the stickers and applying them to their own bats. The sticker issue just created more problems than it was designed to cure.
[Edited by ntxblue on Jan 4th, 2002 at 08:33 AM]
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