1. Metal Baseball Bats Should Be Banned in High School and College Presented by: Luke Jackson

2. America's Pastime Baseball has been called "America's Pastime" since Major League Baseball was founded in the early 1920s.

3. Metal Baseball Bats Were Created -Advantage to hitter -Greater exit speeds

4. Metal Bat Technology Increased

5. Wood vs. Metal -Solid barrels -Little trampoline effect -Center of mass cannot be changed -Longevity -Metal bats are hollow barrelled -Made of aluminum -Trampoline effect -Center of mass

6. MLB Players Use Wood Bats -Top physical condition -Player strength -Would cause injury

7. High School Players -Increased playing level -Training year round -Bryce Harper

8. BESR Ball Exit Speed Ratio Ratio of the speed of the pitch to the speed of the ball off the bat. -The NCAA issued this certification in 2006 -It was an effort to make the game safer

9. Did not help increase safety

10. BBCOR Batted Ball Coefficient Of Restitution -Gauges how much energy is lost in the ball-bat collision -Limits to.50 -Slightly higher than wood

11. BBCOR bats are breaking in -Tested new bats -Effects of use -Increased trampoline effect -Performed like old bats

12. Examples Demarini CF4Marucci Cat 5

13. Solution -Switch back to wood bats -Increases safety