NEW YORK (AP) -After collecting more than 1,700 broken bats over 2 1/2 months, Major League Baseball officials have started meeting with manufacturers to discuss quality control.
Although commissioner Bud Selig has expressed concern over the increase in broken bats among maple models, no action has been taken. He can’t ban maple bats unilaterally because their use is subject to collective bargaining.
Baseball’s safety and health advisory committee, which includes players’ union officials, said Tuesday it collected every broken bat from July 2 through Sunday and compiled “its manufacturer, the model, its dimensions, the situation of the game when it was broken, the area in which the bat fragments landed, and video footage from MLB.com.”
Baseball retained the USDA Forest Service’s Forest Products Laboratory; the wood-testing agency Timberco Inc.; Harvard professor Carl Morris and University of Massachusetts-Lowell professor James Sherwood to analyze data and design tests.
MLB said the committee hopes to make recommendations.
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