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Originally Posted by SAump
The Japanese love to play our game. Perhaps we can "take away" something from their game. Their "nankyu baseballs are renowned in Japan for their safety and durability." 70 years of baseball tested. Changing the baseball and leaving everything else alone is so much cheaper. The wood bats do not prevent death. Helmets are much more costly. If NFHS knew about this baseball, I feel they would also find this alternative more acceptable than restrictive bat and helmet laws.
Here is some of the dish. http://www.kenkobaseball.com/about.html
Here is some more written in Japanese. http://www.jsbb.or.jp/ |
Wood bats would decrease the speed that the ball comes off the bat, hence increasing reaction times for players, hence keeping them safer.
So how are wood bats not safer? I like the other poster's analogy of Rifle vs BB gun.