We are never going back to pitchers hitting. The designated hitter is not an aberration of history, and it is not an experiment. It is the state of the game today, at every level above high school, and in every country in which the game is seriously played. Unlike interleague play, which is nothing more than a business gimmick, the designated hitter is a strategic improvement to the game on the field itself, and no league is going to degrade the quality of play by forcing players who not only cannot hit, but who never even train to hit, to stand at the plate as though they can.
All is not lost for those who desperately long to go back to 1955, though. It looks like the
serious discussion about going back to a 154-game schedule is escalating. So you might actually get this one.