NCAA Banning of Composite Bats

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College banning composite bats. General Items Forum.

Hope they get banned and that the states follow and the various sanctioning associations ban them too.

I am an adult slow pitch player and this issue of rolling and shaving the composites is really old nes to us. It has, and is, a huge issue in the slow pitch game. Pitchers wearing helmets/masks for protection. The colleges, high schools and sanctioning bodies need to take responsibility for safety purposes. Switch eberyone back to wood or at the worst the old single wall aluminium. Just my two "sense".

This will never happen. The bat companies would make sure of it. Money talks.

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Originally posted by Rambo:
This will never happen. The bat companies would make sure of it. Money talks.

Actually, I don't know why the bat companies would care. They will sell just as many bats, whether they be composite or aluminum. I don't see the motivation for the bat companies to fight it.

The bat companies are actual for it. The aluminum bats are less expensive to manufacture, but they will still sell their top of the line models for $400. That means their margin per bat is going way up.

In addition, every player, team and school swinging illegal bats will now have to go out and buy a new one. The demand is going to go way up.

Money does talk, and this is like winning the lotto for bat companies!