When did NCAA baseball start using aluminum bats?
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The NCAA legalized the use of aluminum bats in 1974.
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You're wrong... up untill about 1998 or so the balls had their respective league president's signature. For example, If there was a game being played at fenway, all the balls would have the signature of the AL president.
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http://www.ncaa.org/library/rules/2005/2005_softball_rules.pdf#search='softball%20rules'
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The NL was the first league, playing in the late 1800s. A bunch of teams formed the AL in 1900-1901 as a rival league. As baseball expanded, they added teams where it made the most sense. For instance, the Seattle Mariners are in the AL because the old Seattle Pilots were in the AL. In other cases, an area (like L.A.) would already have an NL team, so they added an AL team (the Angels) because they didn't want two teams in the same league so close together. That's why the two Florida teams are in different leagues, for instance.
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2 words my friend: baseball bat
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In the range of 1916 to 1980 see: http://www.sluggermuseum.org/faqs.aspx#batworth for a better date based on your logo of your bat.
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The American League instituted the DH rule before the 1973 season and Ron Blomberg of the New York Yankees became the first MLB player to officially play the postition on April 6, 1973.\n\nThe official rule states that any league may use the rule if it so chooses. The American League decided to experiment with the rule starting with the 1973 season in an effort to boost offensive production (since pitchers are traditionally poor hitters), liked it and has continued to use it. The National League (the Senior Circuit) decided to stay more traditional and has continued to make pitchers hit for themselves. The DH rule specifically states that the DH will be used in the home park of a team that regularly uses the rule (why you have DH in AL home games of a World Series) and that it will be used in an All-Star game only if both leagues agree in advance.\n\nIronically, it was the National League, not the American League, that first proposed using a DH. National League president John Heydler advocated the rule change at the annual major-league meeting in Chicago on Dec. 1, 1928. The NL owners approved the rule, but the AL rejected it, thus ending the debate on the rule until it revived in the 1970s.
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The First game under what would become the standard rules was played in 1849 at Elysian Fields in Brooklyn New York. The first Professional game was played in May 1871 between the Cleveland Forest City's and the Fort Wayne(Indiana) Kekiongas FT.Wayne won 2-0. The National League would be formed in 1876 and the American League in 1901. The First team to play for money was the Cincinnati Red Legs who were formed in 1869.\nAs to who had the first pro hit etc. the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown New York would have those answers.
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In my school, boys were required to play baseball at school until the fifth grade.  Here, we divided teams by grade to encourage teamwork amongst the teams to "fight for their own grade" and give the game some ownership.  It's been working well this way for about fifteen years.
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http://www.baseball-reference.com/about/bat_glossary.shtml\n\nthought I could pull up some images for you, but don't think it did much good. why don't you email them for some pictures?  best of luck & congrats on going to college.♥
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The first recorded use of "inning" in association with sport was recorded in 1738 as, "a teams turn in a game".  It was later popularized in the game of Cricket.  The team in the field was considered the "out" team.  The team at bat was considered.  the "in" team.  Back in the 1850s it was incorporated into the game of baseball.
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It depends what kind of bat you have, and what type of ball you play. If you play fastpitch baseball and you have an older bat or play softball the new aluminum bats have some new core makeups that can greatly increase your power and bat speed.
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Their were left handed infielders.\nDon Mattingly played 2B and 3B\nfrom 1982 to 1983 until he was \nswitched to 1B in 1984 as his everyday\npostion.\n\nLen "Nails" Dykstra played one year at Short Stop in the minors.
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The first year on the AL featured the Chicago White Sox, Boston Americans, Milwaukee Brewers, Cleveland Blues, Baltimore Orioles, Washington Senators, Philadelphia A's, and Detroit Tigers.\n\nThe Orioles would move to New York and become the Yankees, while the others are still around in one form or another.\n\nThe original NL teams (1876) were the Chicago White Stockings (who became the Cubs), Hartford Dark Blues (gone), St. Louis Brown Stockings (gone), Boston Red Caps (now the Atlanta Braves), Louisville Grays (gone), NY Mutuals (gone), Philadelphia A's (gone, not the same A's as today), and the Cincinnati Reds, who are not the same as today's Reds franchise, which started as an American Association team in 1882.
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One side of the baseball has the commissioner of baseball's imprinted signature.  A. Bartlett Giomatti was the comissioner of the National League from 1986- April 1989.  I was probably in that time period
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I played college baseball at Eastern Conn. St.  University. My sophomore year (This was March of 2002), we were down by two runs in the bottom of the ninth inning with two on and two outs. They tried to intentionally walk our cleanup hitter, and he reached out and stroked a homer to right field for a walk off.  I know its not the majors or anything, but a great story nonetheless.
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It all started in 1947 when North Carolina State, led by coach Everett Case, celebrated its Southern Conference championship by cutting down the nets. Case decided to take the nets as a souvenir of his team's victory.\n\n"He wanted it to show as a sign of winning the championship," says Frank Weedon, senior associate athletics director at N.C. State and a historian of sorts.