Are metal bats riskier than wood bats?
People claim that balls come off a metal bat faster and thus make them more dangerous, but it doesn't look like there is a big difference.
Certainly kids have been hurt, and at least 16 have been killed by balls hit with metal bats since 1991, including 18-year-old pitcher Brandon Patch, hit in the head by a line drive during a game in Montana in 2003.
Diegnan says only two kids were killed by wood bats during this same stretch, but considering roughly 90% of young players use metal bats, the ratio doesn't necessarily suggest the composition of the bat is to blame.
Diegnan says only two kids were killed by wood bats during this same stretch, but considering roughly 90% of young players use metal bats, the ratio doesn't necessarily suggest the composition of the bat is to blame.
posted by John Lott at 3:01 PM
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Who cares about statistics and other facts? I hate aluminum bats, for the sound they make if nothing else, so let's ban them all. They're ugly, baby-killing assault bats, not at all like the fine sporting bats with which I grew up. You can trust me when I say that I'd never want to bat those nice traditional wooden bats, just these dangerous, military-style semi-automatic assault bats.
The smaller ones are good for self defense in municipalities that have banned weapons (but have not yet learned to ban self defense.) In England the government learned they had to ban self defense to prevent anyone from using any object to defend against an attack. If you smash an attacker on the head with an aluminum bat you will be compelled, in court, to explain why you were carrying a bat; just say it's your fish killer and you forgot to put it in your boat (or something like that.) Anyway, don't waste a good wooden one, use an aluminum bat as a liberal head smasher - they've been known to create such a shock as to convince them the error of their ways on self defense. Sometimes, after being smashed on the head, they wished they had been shot. Eventually, though, they will be considered assault weapons, and will be regulated under the 1934 National firearms act that regulates assault weapons; but, they will have to prove aluminum bats are high powered, so only smaller, less powerful individuals may legally use them to avoid the 1934 firearms act.
The difference between a metal bat and a magician's wand?
The wand is for cunning stunts...
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