Why outlaw bats?

[Steve M]

Dunno, Southpaw. I know most of the time I played, we used wood bats. Metal bats were starting to become popular when the knees forced me to quit playing. The game I played doesn't exist anymore and that's a shame. When somebody hit one out with a wood bat and even the early metal ones, everyone was impressed and should have been - today you've got folks hitting them out who couldn't hit the ball much more than 100 feet with wood.