We want to keep it that way. The NCAA has adopted rules that will make aluminum bats act more like their wood counterparts. They give us gloves, travel bags, batting gloves, bats. Bat manufacturers have had problems meeting the new requirements and the resulting demands. I think we should go back to wood.
Guys are just getting too big and too strong, the bats are too light and powerful.
Someone's going to get killed, and that's what it's going to come to. The safety issue is also a major concern to the Terps. Freshman right-hander Todd Ainsworth was struck by a batted ball above his eyebrow during a game in January's ACC Disney Blast and has not pitched since. I've been hit by balls before. All articles and materials contained herein are property of the Diamondback newspaper, copyright 1997.