In Reply to: Should the NCAA ban all but WOOD bats? posted by fanoverboard on June 10, 2010 at 11:00:08
I played at the time of the transition.
I left high school using only wooden bats. Colleges were using the aluminum bats for a couple of years when I got to college. Then my first day taking BP in college, I thought I died and went to heaven.
I chose a metal bat (back then they were heavy and clumsy, but were a much mor formidable weapon.
On a wood bat, there were areas of the bat that would be considered the "sweet spot." Practically the entire metal bat was the "sweet spot." I recall my first game with the metal bat. I hit a line drive to center field and it took one hop and bounced over the 410ft. mark. I remember thinking if I had hit the ball with a wood bat, it would have been a routine line drive that would have bounced well before the center fielder.
In addition to that, when playing the infield, you get to know how a ball is hit by the sound when it comes off a wood bat. With the metal bat, all contact sounds as if the ball was hit on the button...the "swet spot." Let's go back to wood. Unfortunately, when I watch MLB,many of the players don't hold the bat correctly when using ash bats in regard to the label, thus all the cracked bats.