The bat rule, written by people who have argued about bats
The regulations are exact. All bats must be solid wood, single-unit construction, and cannot be hollow. Composite bats with wood barrels and handles of a different composition or reinforced carbon fibre polymers are prohibited. Laminated wood and AXE bats are approved provided they meet the hundred percent wood and non-hollow specification. BAUM bats are approved. And a bat challenged during a game is removed from play until the Rules Committee determines whether it complies.
Naming two specific manufacturers as approved, and providing a procedure for a bat somebody objects to mid-game, is what a 45-and-over wood bat league writes after the third time it happened. Amendments must be submitted by email before February 15 for committee review, then voted on by the managers of the affected division, with the committee chair breaking ties. High Cheese keeps a league's rules beside its schedule and against its rosters, so a bat standard this specific is readable by the man about to buy one.
Maine Woods Baseball in detail
- Independent, wood bat, 45 and older, in Midcoast Maine — two divisions and four programmes.
- A schedule page per division per year, updated by a webmaster after every change.
- Twelve years of results by season, with no live table on the site.
- Results kept season by season, on twelve separate pages.
- Braves, Cardinals, Cubs, Dodgers, Giants and Pirates at 45; Athletics, Orioles, Red Sox and White Sox at 60.
- The league supplies scorebooks to every team; no player figure is published.
- P.O. Box 845, Bath, Maine, a telephone number, and a contact form on every page.
- $250 for MW45, $190 for MW60, $300 for both — and no guaranteed roster spot.
- Kelley Field in Bath for most of it, plus Brunswick, Colby, Deering Oaks and a professional park.
- An MWB Blog, a current weather page, and a crossover and waitlist list.
- A Photos page in each division, and a page for the championship trophy.
- Funded by fees, insured through Sadler, with officers paid in waived dues.
- Fifteen games plus playoffs at 45, twelve including playoffs at 60, and half the season played to qualify.
- Twelve seasons of results on file, 2014 through 2025, plus a championship trophy page.
- Nine named posts, elected annually to one-year terms, taking office on January 31.
- All five answered on one page, including the fifty percent attendance rule.
- Bylaws, a digital waiver, an insurance claim form, and a cancelled-game checklist.
- Workouts in April, draft on the 19th, opening day May 3, and two games at Old Orchard Beach.
- $400 a team a season for uniforms, reimbursed on receipts, sourced on the open market.
- Assigned through Arbiter, with the Scheduler booking a crew for every rescheduled game.
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