BBCOR Bats

■ NCAA and NFHS rules on compliant baseball bats for 2011 (dirtdogbaseball.com)

Good source of basic information about the new bat standards, including how they will apply to high school baseball as well.

■ NCAA Certified Bats Website (Baseball Research Center - University of Massachusetts-Lowell)

This web page will be used to list all bats that have been submitted to the University at Massachusetts at Lowell Baseball Research Center (UMLBRC) for NCAA certification and have passed. All bats are tested per the NCAA Ball Exit Speed Ratio (BESR) Protocol or Bat-Ball Coefficient of Restitution (BBCOR) Protocol. Table 1. summarizes the bats which have been submitted and run through the BESR and/or BBCOR certification process and passed.

■ NCAA Baseball bat standards and procedures (NCAA.org)

If an illegal bat is detected, umpires are directed to remove the bat from play and place the bat in a secure area away from the offending team, either personally or with the assistance of game management. The bat shall be returned to the offending team, on their request, at the conclusion of the series or in the case of a single game, at that games conclusion.

All umpiring crews are expected to have a full copy of legal and illegal bats in the locker room. In addition, all umpiring crews are expected to have a copy of the illegal bat list available to them on the field during a game for reference in case a bat is challenged as illegal due to having a composite barrel.

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