State Senate committee approves bill to ban metal bats in high school games Sports, posted by Editor, Pleasanton Weekly Online, on May 9, 2010 at 12:22 am
The state Senate Education Committee has approved a bill that would place a one-year moratorium on the use of metal bats in high school baseball games, Assemblyman Jared Huffman said.
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Posted by member, a resident of the Pleasanton Valley neighborhood, on May 10, 2010 at 8:46 am
I find it ironic that we got metal bats as a safety matter in the first place. People were concerned about splintering wooden bats so they went to metal. Now we have come full circle.
Posted by Rick, a resident of the Another Pleasanton neighborhood neighborhood, on May 10, 2010 at 10:00 am
The problem is the metal bats keep getting better and better and can now hit a ball extremely hard and far. And even if they outlaw certain bats, the kids take the bats and have them re-painted to look like legal ones and use them in the games. This information came from a friend who is head of one of the Umpire Associations in the the Tri-Valley area.
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