Posts Tagged ‘ MIKEN ’

NCAA – New Bat Standards coming in January 2011

NCAA institutions sponsoring baseball will be subject to new bat standards this coming season. The new “Ball-Bat Coefficient of Restitution” standard becomes effective January 1, 2011, and there is no opportunity for “grandfathering” old bats. The new BBCOR formula provides a better measure of a bat’s performance and allows the NCAA Baseball Rules Committee and [ READ MORE ]

USSSA Convention News – New Balls & Worlds Dates

On monday novenber 5th USSSA held a manufactures ball test in Kissimmee Fl at the national headquarters. All manufactures were invited to attend. 5 manufactures attended and the end result was the .52/275 ball was approved for play starting april 1 2010. The .40/325 will stay in play until the inventory of them is sold [ READ MORE ]

Bat Rolling Machines – How to see through the sales pitch!

If you’ve ever been in the market for a bat rolling machine I’m sure you’ve found that there are several sites out there that other similar products. Each one of them trying to sell you their product and of course they all point out features of their roller that are different (and better) than the [ READ MORE ]

NCAA proposes ban on composite barrel bats – Update 11/4/09

Updated – Here’s and excellent link with some additional information on the ban and effect of bat rolling. Here’s some information I came across recently regarding the NCAA proposed ban on composite barrel bats for 2010. Apparently it’s a little more than a proposed ban. In a recent catalog I received from Baseball Express I [ READ MORE ]

Bat Rolling – Legal or NOT Legal?

Let me start off first by saying that you only need to concern yourself with whether or not Bat Rolling is “accepted” by the associations. You are not breaking any laws by rolling your bat. There has only been 1 court case in regards to bat altering. The ASA sued 2 individuals a few years [ READ MORE ]