College World Series:

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College baseball teams should exclusively use wooden bats. Especially, the Division 1-A schools. I (believe) MLB offered to pay the bills for wooden bats.

 

agree.

given the number if D1 schools with forestry programs and/or large tracts of timberland, I would think this would be a great marketing exercise too. "bats sourced from sustainable organic fair trade student-managed timberlands" or some such nonsense.

 

At least when I was still playing, there was a real concern there wasn't enough viable wood in the world to support college ball going wood.

 

lol.

 

I played in D1 in the late 70s and early 80s just as metal bats were coming out. I remember going into a huge closet, when I was a feshaman, that was filled with wood bats and the equipment manager told me to pick 3. I loved it, but in my sophomore year we were given the choice of 1 metal bat, that I still have today and were told that's it. The league I play in now is all wood bat and that's the way the game is supposed to be played.

 

I can't stand the sound of metal bats. Wooden bats 100%.

 

Well dang, I should have looked at this forum earlier, I am in Omaha,
with two extra bedrooms, you coulda come up and stayed here...
I used to photograph the CWS, all thru the 80's, stopped in about '91,
have only been to a handful of games as a spectator, went to just one
this year, the one where all 3 Arkansas players let the foul ball drop...

 

I hate to tell you this, but that is what they said about hockey sticks, too...
Some day, probably not in our lifetimes, MLB will be using all carbon-fiber bats..

 

I can't imagine MLB doing that. It would make it impossible to compare stats from different eras.

 

Me neither, but you just never know... and how would you cork a composite bat?

 

Great point. My son went to University of Miami and he could watch them play 12 months a year. I played up north and we couldn't even get outside until mid March. Huge advantage to warm weather schools.