Who would have thought there would be a coalition for the protection of baseball bats? Well, things are getting batty here in New York (sorry, couldn’t resist): Don’t Take My Bat Away, a newly formed group representing coaches, parents, youth baseball enthusiasts and bat-makers, has sued the city to stop the council-endorsed ban on the use of metal and non-wood composite bats in city high schools. The lawsuit, which was filed on May 7 in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, claims that “there is no fair, just or reasonable connection between the Bat Ordinance and the health and welfare of New York City high school baseball players” and that the ban “arbitrarily and unjustifiably prohibits the use of bats that are preferred by the vast majority of high school players, coaches and teams.” But the lawsuit doesn’t take into account the real pitfall of the bat ban—if it takes effect this September as planned, it would mean NYC now has something in common with North Dakota, whose state high school baseball league is currently the first and only in the country to have switched exclusively to wood.