PILGRIMS' REGRESS:

The Ping of Spring (NY Times, 4/06/03)

Not since Michael Dukakis rode around in a tank has Massachusetts created such a stir of grass-roots bewilderment. In a radical departure from the status quo, the high school baseball teams of the Bay State are switching back to wooden bats after decades of using the more juiced-up metal bats that are almost universal in schools across the nation. In the ensuing furor, it is clear far more is at stake than a retreat from the modern to the antique, from the ping to the crack of the bat. The change, fiercely controversial, amounts to a batting revolution of sorts. Wooden bats remain a tradition these days only in the major leagues and its affiliates.

Republican governors and wooden bats? Maybe there's hope for Massachusetts yet. Posted by Orrin Judd at April 6, 2003 12:26 PM