Fri Nov 01, 2002, 03:58pm
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Originally posted by greymule
The manufacturers are lying. All the test you need is to watch the ball come off the bat. Especially in slow-pitch, it's obviously much faster.
Guys who couldn't reach a 300-foot fence when I quit playing 20 years ago now routinely clear it by 25, 50, 75 feet. (And now they're in their 40s and 50s.) Fancy instruments aren't necessary when the empirical evidence is so clear. If the ball is going farther (and nobody can deny that it does), then it has to be coming off faster.
When metal bats first appeared—was it the early 1970s?—they did not hit the ball any farther. As I remember, they felt like a wooden bat when they hit the ball, too. Not now.
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They need to start making aluminum bats out of aluminum again and get rid of the composites.
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