Posted by: () on Wed Jan 30 16:57:43 2002

Which baseball bat, wood or aluminum, would send a baseball a greater distance when hit?
> Thank you. My son Malik has a science project discussing this very topic. Can you cite any empirical evidence/test data to support your findings?
> I find it truly amazing that I just discovered batspeed.com tonight.
> Go Red Sox and Ted Williams was the greatest hitter who ever lived.

See http://www.npl.uiuc.edu/~a-nathan/pob/Parkland/sld001.htm for the best science I've seen on bat speed;/weight and distance