Do you think the high cost of aluminum bats vs. wooden bats was a factor in their decision?
Hearings on this topic have been going on for months in front of the New York City Council, leading up to their decision yesterday (Council Bans Metal Bats in NYC High School Baseball). The hearings featured testimony from the family of a Montana teenager killed in 2003 after being struck by a baseball hit off an aluminum bat. Several speakers also referred a similar case of a New Jersey 12-year-old who went into cardiac arrest after being hit by a line drive in the chest last summer. The boy was revived by spectators but was in a coma for months. Mayor Bloomberg can still veto the bill, but the council appears to have enough votes to override the veto. Little League Baseball and sporting goods manufacturers have contended that there is no proof that aluminum bats are more dangerous than wooden ones, and last year the American Legion’s National Baseball Subcommittee agreed with them after a comprehensive nine-month review of the issue. In 2002 researchers from Brown University publishe
