Talk:Baseball bat

Association with crime

Can anyone verify how and when using this as a weapon became associated with organized crime, or at least expand on this portion of the article a bit?

where is the copyright date on this page??? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.170.74.201 (talk • contribs)

If you look at the bottom of the page, there is a "This page last modified ..." section that lists a date. This date is the copyright date of the current version of the page. If you want to know about previous versions, check the "history" section (available from the "history" tab at the top of the page). --Kelly Martin 04:13, Jan 17, 2005 (UTC)

in a bibliography what would i put for the authors name?

im writing a bibliography for my project, and can't find the author name. can somebody help me?

tia

Wikipedia articles don't have "authors" per se. It is usually quoted as "Wikipedia contributors." If you're doing a bibliography on a Wikipedia article, there's an easy way to do it. Go back to the article, then look at the toolbox on the left-hand side. There should be a link that says "Cite this article," and that will give you all the information you need. EWS23 | (Leave me a message!) 00:48, 21 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

thanks for the help

Drop Confusion

In the article, the calculation for "drop" is presented as weight minus length. But in the Drop disambiguation page, it is described as length minus weight. I suspect the disambiguation page is correct, and the article simply uses an incorrect example. --Llewdor 16:24, 9 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Dangers of Aluminum Bats

Without citations to back up claims, it may appear that this article is biased. For instance, the article states:

there is statistical evidence, if sometimes contested, of more injuries and even deaths with the metal bat.

but it fails to cite any of the statistical evidence. There are also no citations to any deaths caused by using an aluminum bat, or proof that these deaths (if they exist) would not have happened if the batter had been using a wooden bat. If aluminum bats are so dangerous, and I'm not saying that they aren't, then why did the American Academy of Pediatrics not recommend using wooden bats in their own study? Instead, they suggested using softer balls and more headgear protection.