Why does college baseball use aluminum bats and not wooden?

Answer 1

Under NCAA regulations, all surplus monies must be funnelled to the football and basketball programs, mostly to be spent on bail bonds or sports cars. Thus baseball programs get but a pittance, and cannot afford to splurge on wooden bats, which break, and must go with aluminum, which do not.

Plus they like the "ping".

Answer 2

It definetly is a money issue, because the aluminum one last longer, while they probably get new bats each season, its better then having to spend for a new batch weekly with wooden breaks.

As previosly mentioned a side effect is the distance and speed that the ball come off the aluminum, while they are not banning them and a previous person commented, they are requiring the companies to make them perform the specifications of wood, mostly to keep people from getting killed.

Answer 3

Originally, it was because aluminum bats last a lot longer. A side effect was that the ball goes a bit further off the aluminum bat than it does the wood.

Bad side effect: it comes off the bat faster and if yo happen to be the pitcher who gets it with a line drive, that's bad.

I support the movement to ban aluminum bats from all leagues, just to keep the kids safer.

Answer 4

Pure and simple: the cost

A player can go through a wooden bat or more during a single game. Where as an aluminum bat can last the entire season.

Answer 5

Because it's legal to use aluminum bats, since the aluminum bats create more vibration the ball flys further giving potential scouts the illusion that they can hit the ball further than they probably could with a wooden bat.

Answer 6

Money?? Omaha puts up a lot of cash and all the teams are endorsed by metal bat makers. They are pretty fun to hit with and i believe it makes for a more exciting baseball game.

Answer 7

I agree with Dave - they use them because they're cheaper overall - and they're bad for the game. Baseball, Tennis, Golf - we'd be better off if they all went back to wood instead of the high tech composites. All of these games are now affected by how much money the player/team has to spend on all this technology.

Answer 8

They are starting to band aluminum bats so I can't answer your question. They are banding them because they cause more injury and for the balls to go farther.

Answer 9

wooden would be too hard for them to hit it farther

Answer 10

The "ping" that you hear when a ball is hit.....it is a great sound