Sentence examples for bat industry from inspiring English sources
The bat industry and Little League have fought off legislative efforts in six states to ban metal bats for safety reasons.
Representatives of the athletic leagues and the bat industry, capping a week of intense lobbying within the Council, countered that controlled tests showed that the metal bats now in use had exit velocities near or identical to wood bats.
The Little League's Keener said injuries to league pitchers from batted balls had declined to 48 or fewer a year from 134 in 1994, when the bat industry and Little League agreed on rules for metal bat performance.
In effect, these changes acknowledge that metal bats do not perform the same as wood models, despite previous assurances by Little League and the bat industry that they do.
Steven Tellefsen, the president of Babe Ruth League, and May, speaking for the $200 million bat industry, offered similar assurances, which they use as the cornerstone of a campaign called the Don't Take My Bat Away coalition.
However, those in the sporting goods industry have tried to fight the bans, which have put a dent, no pun intended, in a bat industry that was a $200 million wholesale business in 2010.
Mr. Oddo added, "I am amazed Mike Mussina would allow himself to be used in this way to protect the moneyed interests of the metal-bat industry".
Industry executives appreciated Mr. Stringer's help; they advocated for a promotion for him in 2008 to "keep Stringer going to bat for industry," according to the records.
She bats away industry gossip suggesting she was recently on the hiring wish list of Jay Hunt, the former BBC1 controller who is now C4's chief creative officer, and even sounds a little sniffy about her Horseferry Road rivals.
It is difficult for them to be inventive and risky". She bats away industry gossip suggesting she was recently on the hiring wish list of Jay Hunt, the former BBC1 controller who is now C4's chief creative officer, and even sounds a little sniffy about her Horseferry Road rivals.
Cantor went to bat for the industry repeatedly over politically unpopular issues, including the taxation of income at private equity firms at the lower capital gains rate.
