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					Originally Posted by GarthB
					
				 Considering what I see in the dugout and not on the store shelf, $200 is the starting price for the metal bats, not the average.
 Brett Brothers Bat Company supplies local teams with wood bats for about $30 a pop.  Elite team coaches tell me that on average each kid will go through three to four wood bats a season and that they buy a new metal bat each year.  Expense doesn't seem an issue.
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 That is because it is not.
