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Originally posted by cowbyfan1
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Originally posted by mick
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Originally posted by cowbyfan1
I have taken some serious shots to it from a high 90's fast ball off aluminum bats. This is just as bad, if not worst than a major leaguer with a wood bat. I have never felt any pain as a result.
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cowbyfan1,
Why could a ball, fouled back, off an aluminum bat be *worst* than a ball, fouled back, off the wooden bat?
Confusing.
mick
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Why does the ball carry farther off an aluminum bat than it does a wooden one when it is hit normally?? If it goes faster and farther forward, seems to me it will do the same backwards. So if a pitcher is throwing 95 and it is fouled straight back into my mask, don't you think it will be coming back at me faster if fouled off an aluminum bat then a wooden bat???
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Jim,
It seems to me that, given the increased coefficient of restitution of the aluminum bat (over the wood bat) traveling in the opposite direction of the path of the ball, would actually slow the ball more than a wood bat would slow the ball (given equal force vectors).
I will concede the aluminum bat may well direct the path of the ball higher, but not faster, due to the trampoline effect of the hollow bat.
mick
Wed Jul 13, 2005, 09:38am
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