Dear Patch family,Hi, my name is Brian from a
suburb in Chicago, I saw the story of Brandon last
night and I was in tears.  What a senseless and 
horrible tragedy!
My thought is that aluminum should be banned after
little league, simply because the pitchers aren't
throwing as fast, after that the bats are simply too
juiced to have any place in baseball.  They could
maybe use them in softball, but it looks like it all
comes down to money.  Everybody wants to be a hero and
these bats give them that "false" feeling of being
Barry Bonds, when in reality they would of hit a
routine pop-up to the outfield.  You can equate it to
steroids in a way, the bats are a performance enhancer
and should be banned immediately.  The piece was great
and it let people know of Brandon's story and it
really touched me, although I don't play baseball
anymore, it is by far my favorite sport.  Thanks for
getting the word out and good luck to you in your
endeavors to ban the bats.  One death is enough for a
kid playing the sport he loved,  God bless you!  You
are the real heroes and I hope that Brandon is the
pioneer behind the gobs of legislation to make these
performance enhancers illegal, and to know that your
son didn't die for statistics of players getting a
"false" sense of making it big time by "juiced" bats.