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Fri May 02, 2003, 12:33pm
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You know something is wrong when an average size 12 year old girl can hit a ball 265' in a slowpitch game.
Yup, she was using a Miken II. Later she used the new Easton and hit it nearly as far. Same game with the Miken, a 10 year old that was all of 4 foot nothing hit one almost 200'. Something has to be done about these bats, either a new test or ban them all together. BTW, we were using an 11" ball with a 44 core and 375 compression.
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Fri May 02, 2003, 03:19pm
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everybody's a slugger------
I remember doing men's slo-pitch and seeing everyone crunch the ball---- high tech bats and balls that bounce like a super ball--- if I was a pitcher I'd want to be lobbing them in from 2nd base !!
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Fri May 02, 2003, 04:53pm
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In my opinion, the bats are the single greatest factor in the deterioration of SP. It's not just the home runs; it's all those balls that would have been outs 25 years ago but now shoot through or over the fielders.
The main field at our county park has 300-foot fences, 10 feet high, and the wind usually drifts in. In the old days, maybe 20 balls a season would have been hit over that fence by the entire league (150 total games), virtually always by genuine sluggers. I did a game last year in which each team hit its 6 homers by the third inning. One team inadventently hit 5 more (for outs) and lost 44-38. There are no more open tournaments around here. How would the games ever end?
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