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aluminium bats

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All across American people are wondering if it is the best option for amateur players to use aluminum bats when they play baseball. The Advanced technology of aluminum bats has resulted in many players getting critically or fatally injured and is causing offensive numbers to climb to record   breaking highs. Aluminum bats should be banned from amateur baseball because they undermine the traditions of baseball, produce uncharacteristic stats and increase the dangers for players. During   the early 1970's the first aluminum bats were introduced by Worth Bat Company and was quickly followed by Easton Aluminum (“Aluminum”). With the approval for players to use aluminum bats in 1971 by Little League   Baseball Inc., the sales of these bats took off (“Aluminum”). The NCAA finally approved aluminum bats in 1974 and by 1975 aluminum bat sales easily surpassed the sales of wooden bats (“Aluminum”). Even with all the organizations and leagues approving these bats, Major League Baseball has never permitted its players to use aluminum bats (“Aluminum”). The unique engineering and space-age aluminum alloys of aluminum bats, cause balls to fly over the fence, stats to go threw the roof and players to go to the hospital (Armen).
When Americans attend a baseball game they enjoy the traditions of America's pastime, like the warm sun, fresh peanuts and the solid crack of a wooden bat (Abaya). There are twenty baseball games that were played during the 2008 NCAA College Baseball Super Regional tournament (Mills). In twelve of those games the winning team scored ten or more runs (Mills). That means sixty percent of the tournament's games averaged more than one run per inning (Mills). In one game, Louisiana State University scored twenty-one runs by themselves (Mills). To score a run in the game of baseball, a player is required to advance three hundred and sixty feet around the bases. When teams are scoring twenty-one runs a game, it proves that college...

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