My son sure didn’t have any fun the summer he was hit in the by a baseball. Half an inch lower, it would have taken out his eye. He’s got a titanium plate in his forehead now.
Just saying.
Sorry to hear about your son's accident. I hope he's doing OK now.
...but the injury would have been the same whether an aluminum or a wooden bat was used.
People often don’t realize that aluminum bats are very different than they used to be. The way they are engineered has the ball coming off at such a rapid speed that pitchers cannot react fast enough to defend themselves. This is particularly true in the younger ages.
The better solution, however, is for the league to provide all bats and use only the lower tech bats.
I was just commenting on the emerging nanny-state mindset of IL. (i.e. gun bans, smoking bans ....aluminum bat bans etc..)