Professional Baseball Bats
In Professional baseball, why are wooden Bats used, but Aluminum Bats are not allowed?
Despite the fact that Wooden Baseball Bats crack and break, why are they used in Major League baseball, but aluminum bats are not allowed? Could’nt more home runs be hit if aluminum bats were used? After all, they can’t crack or break like Wooden Bats do. Most of the excitement from baseball is watching home runs sailing out of the stadium, not from seeing someone ducking for cover trying to get out of the way of a cracked, or broken half of a bat flying in their direction.
Three reasons. Two are practical, one is aesthetc.
The first practical reason is that aluminum bats can hit the ball very fast and hard. Since pitchers stand a mere 60 feet from the hitters, there is a chance that a pitcher could be injured by a ball that comes at him too fast to get out of the way or catch it.
The other practical reason has to do with gameplay. Aluminum bats lead to longer fly balls and home runs. Modern baseball parks are designed for wooden bats. If aluminum bats were allowed, teams would have to move their fences back to accomodate the increased hitting ability. Or else they’d have to live with hitters socking 60+ homers a year and a lot more 10-8 scores. It would completely alter the face of the game.
The aesthetic reason has to do with baseball’s tradition. For 150+ years, people have enjoyed the sound of the crack of the bat. Wooden bats are part of the historic beauty of the game. Fans and players alike would be in open revolt if Mlb allowed wooden bats in such a major departure from years of tradition.
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