I am so happy that my Sons are grown, my Coaching career is History, and I don't have to deal with this Crap! If your kid can't react to a hard hit ball, don't tell them they can be a Player!!! Don't allow the "Community Association for the Right of All Kids to Participate in Sports" (CARAKTP) make The Rules!!!
I cannot believe that the issue of Wooden vs Metal Bats in Little League is a Topic in State Legislation!
Woe is Me...
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Friday, September 28, 2007
This Article Makes Me Feel Better About Getting Older...
I am so happy that my Sons are grown, my Coaching career is History, and I don't have to deal with this Crap! If your kid can't react to a hard hit ball, don't tell them they can be a Player!!! Don't allow the "Community Association for the Right of All Kids to Participate in Sports" (CARAKTP) make The Rules!!!
I cannot believe that the issue of Wooden vs Metal Bats in Little League is a Topic in State Legislation!
Woe is Me...
you can click on the Article to Enlarge...
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This is just one of the many reasons why young kids are not playing baseball. The parents have made it too blah with their rules, i.e. every player bats every inning, every player plays equal time, don't keep score it ruins their self-esteem (like 7 year olds can't count!) put a 12 pound, metal caged, pumpkin sized helmet on the batter, etc., etc.
BUT, I will say that when we lived in Lawncrest Stevie Davis' brother-in-law lived on our block and he lost a large chunk of ear when his Easton metal softball bat exploded on him.
If that happened to little leaguers how would those NASA baseball helmets fit?
NASA baseball helmets? I played at Feltonville, on cinders...Dutch was slow when he played there, had to slide for a few Balls and to this day has cinders in his Body! I am cinderless cause I was FAST...
I also played with wooden bats, when they broke we taped them...when they broke again we put screws in them. When they broke the third time we didn't play; Unless a friend said we could use their bat.
No-one I ever played with complained of getting hurt cause the ball was hit too hard.
Of course, parents were not frequently in attendance in those days.
Hot Corner Cooker never used a metal "ping" bat...Thank God the "Mick" is gone, he'd be rollin' in his #7 Uniform!
You are all hood winked by the rhetoric. Metal bats will not go away simply because each one costs several hundred dollars. Big business is controlling this and controlling the little league officals who are saying metal bats are better. (And if you don't give us what we want we will move our games out of PA.) sounds like a threat to me. I say GOOD RIDDANCE!! Let the kids use wooden bats. We have lost a whole generation of carpenters because they don't learn how to work with wood at an early age.
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