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Old Sat Mar 06, 2010, 09:40pm
IRISHMAFIA IRISHMAFIA is offline
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Originally Posted by TexBlue View Post
I was checking the bats in a tournament and saw on 2 different teams a DEMARINI bat that had a 6 sided taper. The handle was circular and so was the barrel. The taper had 6 flat sides to it.

Reading the rule bool (ASA) it says the taper may be conical. It says nothing about a flat sided taper. Have I missed something? Is there an exception to the conical rule for the taper?
I've always thought of a cone as round, but after checking the definition apparently that is not necessarily so.
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