re: These days of baseball compared to the Gorilla ball days

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yes they did. the composite bats they used preceded the BBCOR bats used now and were very hot, which is why they made the switch to BBCOR bats.

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no, those bats were warm, but definitely not hot.
i was finishing high school ball in '96.

damn near anyone could launch one nearly 400' with the bats we had then.
they had a 2-3/4" barrel and were drop 5s and then all absolutely exploded off of them.

by the time Dean and Schimpf were here, they were 2-5/8" barrels and drop 3s.
yeah you could still give it a ride, but nothing like the mid 90s.

there is a reason that '97 team hit twice as many fingers as the '09 team.