Montana jury awards $850,000 in aluminum bat lawsuit

Photo from the Patch family site dedicated to Brandon Patch.

Meanwhile, the Don’t Take My Bat Away Coalition is running this on their homepage: “Extra, Extra: Batted Ball Injuries Do Occur in Games Using Wooden Bats.”

Personally, I’ve played baseball with both wooden and aluminum bats. Metal bats are easier to swing, so the argument that a ball comes off the bat faster on an aluminum bat has some validity.

Secondly, working with wooden bats helps to develop arm strength. I’m a baseball purist and believe that there’s no crying in baseball. If the weight of a bat gets in the way of you playing the sport, you shouldn’t be playing.

Really, I think the red herring from the DTMBA about wooden bats is an irrelevant issue and a weak argument. We really should know the injury rates of aluminum vs. wooden bats in order to make a good decision to remove them from play or not.