For his first day of work in June 1999, Scott Smith arrived at the makeshift bat factory, a three-level brick corner house in ...

Torpedo bats are just the latest innovation in the design of baseball bats, some of which stuck, and others which ... did not.

Some Major League Baseball players are changing up the type of bat they use in favor of ones that feature the thickest part ...

Groh's teammate, Hall of Famer Edd Roush, used a 48-ounce stick. There was also a long-standing competition in wood sources, with hickory rivaling ash for supremacy. Cobb used a bat made out of what ...

The New York Yankees shook Major League baseball during their March 29th game against the Milwaukee Brewers due to their use ...

That style of bat has been gaining popularity after the New York Yankees used them to start this season, crushing a ...

And if you’ve ever picked up a maple wood bat opposed to a white ash bat and you’ve ever hit with the two, there’s no comparison. And right away, the maple wood bat was an overnight success.

He figured he could not make a sturdier ash bat, which had been perfected since the 1880s. He needed a different source of wood. He visited Ottawa's patent library and the National Research ...

There was also a long-standing competition in wood sources, with hickory rivaling ash for supremacy. Cobb used a bat made out of what he claimed was black ash, but was probably just white ash.