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

The torpedo bat gained popularity after the Yankees hit 15 home runs during their first three games, but not all players are ...

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

Many of the Yankees used torpedo bats while posting historic numbers this weekend. Here's how the team started using the ...

Baseball season is back, and it didn’t take long for the New York Yankees to start crushing records and dominating ...

The NCAA, on the other hand, does allow its players to use wooden bats. It's just not common. So there's a possibility ...

Unlike a traditional bat, on torpedo bats the wooden portion starts further down the barrel, moving the "wood toward the ...

Votto, of course, has since retired. Even so, more than 150 years since the advent of major league baseball, the source of wood for bats is not a settled, consensus part of the game. Birch is used ...

Torpedo bats are the explosive new trend in baseball after the New York Yankees set a franchise record Saturday, hitting nine home runs — the first four of which were back to back to back to back — ...

A typical wooden baseball bat only gets wider from the handle to the barrel, while a torpedo bat gets wider toward the center of the barrel then tapers. The end shape resembles that of a bowling ...

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

The owners of Baseball 365 in Burnsville say they've fielded multiple calls about the new bats, but say they're not widely available yet.