Corked Bats

[Cindy C.]

Haggridd:

> There are different rules for tennis and for major league 
>baseball.  

Interesting.  Is it true that in professional tennis you can use any 
racket you want?  They don't have an approved range or specs?



> The composition and dimensions of baseball bats are strictly 
>defined and limited.  A corked bat is lighter at the end and allows 
>for a greater speed during a swing, making it possible to drive a 
>baseball farther, thereby conferring an unfair advantage over a 
>lawful bat.


Baseball is so weird!  If a corked bat is a way of cheating, why 
don't they inspect or X-ray bats players use, just the way they test 
people for drugs?

Cindy -- who has watched very few baseball games, but who did see 
what happened to poor Bill Buckner in the World Series and still 
feels badly for the guy