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So AABC makes the announcement that Connie Mack and Mickey Mantle levels will use wood bats in all post season and and qaulifying tournaments.

Will this force leagues (BBI, Lone Star, ect.) to implement wood bats in their league play?

How will college coaches evaluate talent now when pitching and defense will certainly dominate the game?

How will players adapt to it? Where once front foot hitters could have much success and pitchers in the low 80's didn't.

How will coaches adapt to it? Do coaches have the fundamental knowledge for a wood bat game?

Will HS eventually follow suit and implement wood bats? What about colleges?

If they do, will you see less or more HS players drafted?

Some elite summer teams have already committed to using wood regardless of venue throughout the summer. Will this encourage others to do the same?

Personally, I think the amateur game will change drastically as we knew it in the summer.

It will get interesting folks...baseball might be baseball again.
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A wood bat is. You can get very good quality wood bats in the DFW area from any where from $40 to $70 for a Maple. It could last a year or two if you know how to swing it. With aluminium going anywhere for $100 - $400, it just makes sense. Even if you have the $400 alum bat, get a woodie for the cage and bp, you might actually get a couple of years out of that expensive bat, instead of just a season or two at best.

Wood gives hitters instant feedback, on bad swings, nothing better. It seems like back in the day.....When all that was swung was wood bats, there were not any hitting lessons being given. The bat gives the lesson. IMHO

Like Ken said, there's actually pitching and defense involved.
Not chuck and duck baseball.
Old School not sure if they have any reps outside of Canada. You could contact them on that site. I 1st saw them at the MiLB games in our city years ago. They are much more beautiful than the pics show. People were buying several and some just to mount on the wall.
I know that Bonds had them made for him and others. I assume they have contracts that don't allow them to use players names in their ads and website.
Tomcat, has some quality bats, in fact Jack Kasarjian, owner of Tuffbats/XBat was originally a Tomcat dealer, before he had a fall-out with Tom Roberts and learned the business and started X Bat.

Since then X bat has been through at least four production plants in the last 8 years.

Roberts still hand turns his bats.

Tomcat makes good bats.
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