The Progression of Bats

                I’m sure if you grew up playing baseball like me you had a dad tell you how lucky you were to have the aluminum bats we grew up with instead of the old wood bats they used to use. Every year baseball and softball bats keep getting better and better. It has become less about who has the most talent and more who has the best technology.  Here is a list showing how the bats have progressed:

1^st Wood

2^nd Single wall aluminum

3^rd Double wall aluminum

4^th Triple wall aluminum

5^th Two piece bats

6^th Composite carbon fiber bats

                I thought what I had growing up was the best a bat could get but I should have known. The new carbon fiber bats are ten times better than the bats I had growing up. They have so much more pop to them that college sports had to outlaw them because a single player was hitting 5 homeruns in a game. This is a ridiculous showing that no one should ever be capable of doing.

                People are even taking the bats and modifying them by making the inside wall even thinner to give your balls an extra 50 or 60 feet in distance. This is highly illegal and dangerous but it doesn’t stop people from continually doing it. If something isn’t done soon about these bats getting way too hot adults and little kids are going to start getting seriously hurt or killed by the use of these bats. So why don’t we go back to the way things used to be and make the game more about skill and not as much about who can buy the better bat? If not I am scared to see what will happen to the game I love so much.