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TOPIC: League rules - bats |
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| Jim
May 26, 2008
8:36:50 AM
Entry #: 2765103
| text from an email from Andy Levesque (Fighting Plankton):
Hi Jim, Fred Reise forwarded me your email that went out to team leaders listing some of the parameters and rules for this year. We were confused on the issue of legal/illegal bats. Please tell me if this is not your jurisdiction, but I wanted to hear your input anyway. You say, "No Double wall or composite" but go on to say use the ASA banned bat list as a guide. As I’m sure you know, there are many composite bats out there that aren’t juiced and aren’t on the ASA banned list. Are these okay to use?
Thanks for your input,
Andy Levesque
Plankton
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| Jim
May 26, 2008
8:38:34 AM
Entry #: 2765104
| reply:
Andy, my feeling is a bat with an ASA-certification stamp that isn't listed as banned is okay - because I don't know of a better method of monitoring bats.
We've had the line about no multi-wall and no composite bats in the captain's pre-season newsletter for a bunch of years. Barb Kelly of the Bisons first added it, and I think the basic hope was that team captains would monitor their own teams. But we don't have umps to enforce this rule, and it's pretty vague. I generally don't look at bats the other team is using, and catchers may not have a clue about bats that would or wouldn't be permitted. The spirit of the rule is to keep the league rec and keep people from getting hurt.
Jim
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| Jim
May 26, 2008
8:39:25 AM
Entry #: 2765106
| reply:
Thanks Jim, that’s exactly what we thought.
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