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Ashes To Ashes: Is It Time for a Maple Bat Moratorium?

September 21, 2010 by · Leave a Comment 

Eric Byrnes/Miguel Olivo - August 2006  Don Long/Nate McLouth - April 2008 Todd Helton/Susan Rhodes - April 2008 Miguel Olivo/Brian O' Nora - June 2008 Mike Napoli/Brad Ziegler - August 2010 Welington Castillo/Tyler Colvin - September 2010 The names and dates above link to six separate, highly publicized incidents in which broken or shattered maple bats have hit and or injured persons at an MLB game, both those on the playing field and off it.  In the most recent case, Colvin, a Chicago Cubs rookie playing in his first full season, ...

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