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The teams exclusively use wooden bats, slowing down the game to a safer level for the players, age 50 to 77. “Older men, they can’t play metal bat softball anymore,” Stegner said.

Same for baseball gloves and composite and aluminum bats, which are often imported or use materials that are imported, according to the National Sporting Goods Association.

The field was a few blocks away, and I remember hearing the clang of metal bats from our porch. Then on the fourth day, silence. Schools were shut down, spring sports were canceled.

Larry Raymundo Coronado, who is accused of using a bat to kill his underage girlfriend's father, listened to the prosecutor present her case on Wednesday in Pima County Superior Court.