Demarini Vendetta Bat

[Daryl H. Long]

In Ohio we are lucky to have Kyle McNeely (chair of NF Baseball Rles Committee) to go to for answers. I talked with him last week at our state rules interpreters meeting.

Mattingly bat: Legal

Reebok Vector O: Illegal. Only because Reebok failed to present the bat to BESR certification committee. Reebok was notified on Thursday January 22 by NF rules committee the bat was illegal.

DeMarini Vendetta: Illegal. The handle is not smooth, nor cylindical. It has raised rails.

Additionally, those of you who have said the "smooth, cylider" part of bat definition only applies to the barrel are dead wrong.

[Blue37]

Originally Posted by Daryl H. Long

In Ohio we are lucky to have Kyle McNeely (chair of NF Baseball Rles Committee) to go to for answers. I talked with him last week at our state rules interpreters meeting.

Mattingly bat: Legal

Reebok Vector O: Illegal. Only because Reebok failed to present the bat to BESR certification committee. Reebok was notified on Thursday January 22 by NF rules committee the bat was illegal.

DeMarini Vendetta: Illegal. The handle is not smooth, nor cylindical. It has raised rails.

Additionally, those of you who have said the "smooth, cylider" part of bat definition only applies to the barrel are dead wrong.

Is the NFHS going to issue this to the states? I talked with my State Director yesterday and he said we were going to wait on something from NFHS. He is not going to declare them legal or illegal until/unless NFHS does.

[Delaware Blue]

Originally Posted by Daryl H. Long

In Ohio we are lucky to have Kyle McNeely (chair of NF Baseball Rles Committee) to go to for answers. I talked with him last week at our state rules interpreters meeting.

Mattingly bat: Legal

Reebok Vector O: Illegal. Only because Reebok failed to present the bat to BESR certification committee. Reebok was notified on Thursday January 22 by NF rules committee the bat was illegal.

DeMarini Vendetta: Illegal. The handle is not smooth, nor cylindical. It has raised rails.

I just saw a memo written on NFHS letterhead dated today (February 5) that was sent to Member State Association Executive Directors. It states that both the DeMarini Vendetta and the Reebok Vector "...have been found rule-compliant by the NFHS for use in high school baseball..."

[Kevin Finnerty]

Originally Posted by Delaware Blue

I just saw a memo written on NFHS letterhead dated today (February 5) that was sent to Member State Association Executive Directors. It states that both the DeMarini Vendetta and the Reebok Vector "...have been found rule-compliant by the NFHS for use in high school baseball..."

$ound$ like they've been approved for use by the NFH$

[Delaware Blue]

Originally Posted by Kevin Finnerty

$ound$ like they've been approved for use by the NFH$

Came from our high school Interscholastic Athletic Association State Director by way of my association president. Sure looked official to me.

[MrUmpire]

Originally Posted by Delaware Blue

Came from our high school Interscholastic Athletic Association State Director by way of my association president. Sure looked official to me.

Okay...the chair of the FED rules committee rules the bats illegal and a piece of FED letterhead states that the bats are legal.

I hope y'all don't mind some of us waiting until FED speaks with one voice,

[Delaware Blue]

Originally Posted by MrUmpire

Okay...the chair of the FED rules committee rules the bats illegal and a piece of FED letterhead states that the bats are legal.

I hope y'all don't mind some of us waiting until FED speaks with one voice,

What I saw came from Elliot Hopkins. I believe he is the NFHS director of educational services and liaison to the Baseball Rules Committee.

[jkumpire]

I also posted this on NFHS forum: Can you please show some documentation that this is correct? I cannot find anything on the FED website or anywhere else that this is correct.

[yawetag]

Originally Posted by Kevin Finnerty

$ound$ like they've been approved for use by the NFH$

You mi$$ed one. I gue$$ the NFH$ didn't get a$ much a$ they wanted.