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HS teams just sock the taxpayers and buy new. [/B][/QUOTE]
You must live in a city. Out in the county (at least in my county in N.C.) school booster clubs pay for uniforms, equipment, medical supplies, and training equipment, dugouts and most other needs for sports.
I've served lots of chicken dinners, bought wheelbarrow loads of raffel tickets, served as a booster club president, and donated a batting cage to the high school that I, and my daughters, graduated from. The booster club there recently completed building a $300,000 field house without any tax money.
The only thing the school board pays for is purchasing the land for the schools, a basic gym and grading for athletic fields, fees of officials, the electric bill, activity buses, and a small supplement for head coaches. In a good budget year they might help with a partial payment for field lights.
All that being said, I agree with Steve. Everyone has known this was comming for at least 2 years. Practice with the old bats that are still good, but have legal bats ready at game time.
Roger
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