M ajor League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred recently addressed the advent and rising popularity of the so-called "torpedo bat," a bowling-pin shaped bat the popularity of whic

In the late 1990s, an Ottawa man changed bat technology with the creation of maple bats. Soon, almost every major leaguer wanted one.

The newest innovation in baseball, the bat has a seemingly inflated barrel that is thickest and heaviest where the player most frequently makes contact.