Baseball fans everywhere are talking about torpedo bats, the oddly-shaped bats giving hitters newfound strength. We visited ...

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

Sam Holman made use of the fact that maple has a tight grain structure and is a harder wood than ash, giving it the potential ...

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

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

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

For the past 26 years, he has taught himself the ins and outs of bat making. He said one of his favorite things about the job is the smell of the wood. “When you have a real nice piece of wood, and it ...

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.