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Today's news is reporting about a woman who was hit in the head with a baseball bat that went flying into the stands, at Fenway Park, in Boston. She was rushed out of the stadium on a stretcher. The bat broke in half when it made contact with the baseball. It was only a matter of time before this would happen.
Wooden major league baseball bats aren't what they used to be. I watched baseball games on TV back in the 1950's. Then it was common to see baseball bats break too, but not with any where near the frequency that bats break today. Today, you may see 3 or 4 broken bats in one inning. In the 50s, if you saw that many in a whole game, that would have been a lot.
Not only are fans in danger of these out of control flying bats, but so are players (infielders). I stopped watching MLB last year, but I remember seeing infielders dodging broken bats rather frequently, as well as the splinters coming from them. I wonder if the bats are being made from a weaker wood than they were decades ago, when broken bats were more of a rarity.
If so, I'd say it's time to go back to the stronger woods, but forget metal bats. They also endanger infielders and pitchers by producing faster line drives, and the sound they produce is terrible. In any case, this unacceptable situation has gone on for far too long. It's bad enough that the baseballs are dangerous. Somebody needs to get this bat thing back to a safer level, and quickly.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/05/us/bos...bat/index.html
Wooden major league baseball bats aren't what they used to be. I watched baseball games on TV back in the 1950's. Then it was common to see baseball bats break too, but not with any where near the frequency that bats break today. Today, you may see 3 or 4 broken bats in one inning. In the 50s, if you saw that many in a whole game, that would have been a lot.
Not only are fans in danger of these out of control flying bats, but so are players (infielders). I stopped watching MLB last year, but I remember seeing infielders dodging broken bats rather frequently, as well as the splinters coming from them. I wonder if the bats are being made from a weaker wood than they were decades ago, when broken bats were more of a rarity.
If so, I'd say it's time to go back to the stronger woods, but forget metal bats. They also endanger infielders and pitchers by producing faster line drives, and the sound they produce is terrible. In any case, this unacceptable situation has gone on for far too long. It's bad enough that the baseballs are dangerous. Somebody needs to get this bat thing back to a safer level, and quickly.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/05/us/bos...bat/index.html
