Bats

[Steve M]

Don't most parents or players buy a new bat every other year, if not more frequently. It sure seems like they do onc they reach high school age. It college, most schools have something going with bat makers, so they've rarely got an old bat - NCAA doesn't accept ASA's bat rule anyway. The few slow pitch games I do, it sure seems like an awful lot of new bats are used - so I don't see a real impact with them, either. The only group that doesn't seem to replace all or most of their bats every year are the B & C levels of adult fast pitch - A & Major usually have god enough sponsors that they get new bats every year. Anyway, the point of this rambling is that I think we'll see parents and/or players get the new bats but the maximum impact will be the expense of the bat ONE YEAR earlier than they would have without the rule.