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AB 7: Another California Strike-Out

AARON141 Wrote: Jul 15, 2010 5:26 AM

As a high school baseball player, I would average breaking a wood bat once a week even after being careful with keeping the bat label turned in the right direction. I would have considered my self a power hitter-either strike out, break a bat or get a home run.With wood bats today, to get a good one, one would have to buy a maple bat which the low end cost would run around $70.00 per bat. Last year, Little league made a rule which stated the small barrel(2 1/4" diameter would have to be 1.15 BPF and the junior and senior bats would have to be 2 5/8" in diameter. Also, high school bats would have to be 2 5/8" in diameter. This outlawed all 2 3/4" bats and cost some people a lot of money when they had to have their bats meet these...

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AB 7: Another California Strike-Out

Gunnar Sandberg is a California high school baseball player who was put into a coma this spring after being hit in the head by a line-drive coming off a metal bat. The very good news is that Sandberg is recovering, but the reaction to his injury has been sadly predictable: Democratic California Assembly member Jared Huffman has introduced AB 7 --a bill that would impose a moratorium on non-wood bats for one year.

This bill is opposed by pretty much every key organization in the baseball world, including Little League International, Babe Ruth League Inc., USA Baseball and PONY Baseball and...

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