- “Design Implementation of Baseball Bats: Reinforced Bats—A Case Study” N.M. Ravindra, Ivan Padron, Priyanka Singh, Bhumi Bhatt, Vishal Singh, and Kevin Fritz. JOM, 2012
BackGround: This is a Case study on the design and physics of what makes a baseball bat comfortable, unique and safe for all players on the field.
Intent with info:I plan to use this as the starting point for my hypothesis on the base line of how Baseball bats are made to be safe and ensured of all forms of field play.
- “Performance assessment of wood, metal and composite baseball bats” MM Shenoy, LV Smith, JT Axtell. Composite Structures, 2001
BackGround: 7 layered outline of the certain materials, either being wood, metal or plastic for certain bats and how they are test with machines or drills in order to test the durability.
Intent with info:I want to use this as a order of revolution in a way that helps me bounce back ideas on certain materials and tests that can properly help identify well crafted bats.
- “Temporal Coordination Strategies in Baseball Hitting: Insights from Stationary vs. Oncoming Ball Analysis” T Ino, H Katsumata. Journal of Kinesiology and Sports Science, 2024
BackGround: Examination of the physics when it comes to Bat meets Ball contact and how the pressures of those two force are met along with the multiple forms of bating players may do to alleviate that stress of the two forces.
Intent with info:I intent to use this to explain how the main pressure point of batting can be hammered towards and it’s option to overcome such a force against another.
- “The Breaking Point: Examining the Potential Liability of Maple Baseball Bat Manufacturers for Injuries Caused by Broken Maple Baseball Bats” MA Westover, Penn St. L. Rev., 2010 HeinOnline
BackGround:An Article on the history of Bat factures, regarding thier materials and the pressure they were under during bat to ball contact
Intent with info:I want to use these as examples or subtext for the history of how bats were to usually facture during games under any circumstances.
5.RAWLINGS SPORTING GOODS COMPANY, INC.: STRATEGIC CHALLENGES
Nickerson, Inge; Rarick, Charles.Jordan Whitney Enterprises, Inc. , 2000
BackGround: A Study on the materials and sporting goods sold by Rawlings, the official sporting goods company of the MLB and many more.
Intent with info: I wish to use this information and format it with the rest of the other studies I uncovered to find out if the MLB are using shotty bats in any of its history, the old and new age of Baseball.
Counterintuitive Fall 2024 
My first comment is that, unlike your classmates who posted Proposal without 5 sources, you’ve provided the sources without a Proposal.
Let’s see if I can glean your proposal from what you say about your sources.
Clearly it will involve the design specifications to make bats safe. One would imagine the most dangerous bat not used to pummel an opponent would be a bat that shattered and sent spears into the stands or the third baseman.
Regarding alternative materials, you may want to PROPOSE component changes to make bats safer, but that will change your focus from why bats break to what should be done to prevent it. AND it’s pretty clear the MLB knows very well that wooden bats break, so they must have ingrained reasons to resist metals and plastics.
As far as the physics of stationary versus moving ball contact goes, I’m intrigued to learn whatever there is to learn, but since the batter never strikes a stationary ball, you’ll have to find the relevance for yourself.
The legal aspect of liability for the danger posed by broken bats will get you much closer to a discussion about WHY maple bats are allowed, much preferred, insisted on, demanded by players and the league. For that you’ll want to find out, no doubt, why balls hit by maple bats go FARTHER, right?, than any other bats. That has to be the reason. But you haven’t said so yet.
The question of “shoddy” bats will be complex, I think, but very much worthwhile. Complex because bats can probably be made much safer than they are . . . but at what cost to the player’s batting average? For example, if bats break mostly along the narrowest part of their length, and not along the fat barrel, are players risking more breakage when they demand a skinny stem? And does the league demand a minimum diameter at any length along the bat in an effort to reduce breakage? In other words, does loading up on the barrel while skimping on the stem provide the batter an advantage that contradicts safety? Breakage that could be blamed on “shoddiness” might just be the natural consequence of batters getting what they ordered.