For your Info on the wood bat issue. For those of you who know me, they have noticed about 3 weeks ago my big black eye. I was pitching a softball to my 7 year old grandson. He has been hitting a ball since 1 1/2 years old. He hit quite a few good hits. Then I remember getting hit in the eye and woke up on the ground. He hit a line drive right into my face. I did not see it coming. Guess what, he was using his aluminum bat. Needless to say, the bat is retired and I bought him a wood bat. I was a ways from him also and great damage could have been done if my shatterproof glasses were not on. I know for a fact how fast the ball can go with an aluminum bat. by the way, it is almost healed now. I did praise him and told him to keep hitting that way so I can see him go all the way up the ladder in baseball.