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Originally Posted by Robert E. Harrison
Last night in a Senior Legend game, the batter took strike 3 right down the pipe. He stepped out of the box and hit the ground with his $400+ bat and it separated/broke in two just like Bo Jackson's wooden bat over his knee.
Everybody in both dugouts were ROTFL and the coaches did nothing but chuckle.
I wonder what my coach/parent would have done if I or my brothers had done the same thing?
It is a different world.
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I've never had a bat like that break when someone hit it on the ground. I did have a brand new (first game in use) composite softball bat break this past high school season though. Batter swings and I see the barrel of the bat going flying towards third, while the ball is a lazy pop to the pitcher. I think she just lost the bat, until I see the handle in her hands. The bat had completely separated when she hit the ball. I wanted to see it after the game (I was the BU), but the parents had already gotten it so they could take it back to get a refund. No bat should break on one of it's first swings in game action.
What would my parents have done if I ever did that to a bat? I would have been borrowing a bat from the team because I would not have gotten another bat. The funny thing is my mom had no problem getting my father a new softball bat when he tried wrapping his around a fence post after striking out in a SP game. If he would have hit the ball as hard as he hit the post the ball would have gone 500 feet.