| In the mid 1850s, when baseball was in its infancy, | | | | level, with more home runs and a faster pace. |
| players made their own bats. They experimented | | | | Colleges still prefer the aluminum bats due to their |
| with flat bats, round bats, and heavy bats. They | | | | durability, their cost effectiveness, and their |
| ultimately discovered that the barrel shaped bat was | | | | lightweight swinging power.College players can pay as |
| the most effective. Today, college baseball bats have | | | | little as $50 for a used bat or up to several hundreds |
| taken this technology to a new, powerful level upon | | | | of dollars for ultra-light, specialized alloy bats. College |
| the introduction of aluminum bats in the mid 1970s. | | | | players usually have a good feel for what kind of bat |
| Too many wooden bats were being broken, so due | | | | they need. They should consider personal height in |
| to budget crunches suffered by many college athletic | | | | relation to the length of the bat, and of course barrel |
| programs, collegiate baseball made the switch from | | | | size and weight. One advantage of current college |
| wood to aluminum bats. This sparked a debate that | | | | baseball bats is that the batter can capitalize on the |
| rages today.Many purists want to do away with the | | | | inside edge of the strike zone. So when a pitcher is |
| high tech aluminum/alloy bats and return to the days | | | | trying to jam the batter, a base hit can be ripped out |
| where they claim hitters had to be much better in | | | | with a good aluminum bat.College baseball bats are |
| order to rack up those high batting averages. On the | | | | available online, in sporting goods stores, and at used |
| other hand, a many people believe that the aluminum | | | | equipment outlets. |
| college baseball bats elevate the game to an exciting | | | | |