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

He figured he couldn’t make a sturdier ash bat. Those had been perfected since the 1880s, when it took six balls to draw a walk. He needed a different source of wood. He visited Ottawa’s ...

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

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.

The torpedo is the talk of 2025, but bat experiments have changed baseball and created controversy for 150 years.

April 23rd, 2025 by Matthew Brown When modern baseball fans hear that Babe Ruth’s bat weighed 44 ounces, they usually think ...

Romeo ― When Paul LaMantia and Ryan LaPensee were growing up together in Windsor, rising through the amateur baseball ranks ...

I’m just playing baseball.” That the Yankees had a historically great game, and that some players were using funny-looking ...

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