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

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 ...

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

In addition to their durability, players liked the maple bats because they found that they allowed them to hit for greater power; the hardness of the wood transmitted more energy from the bat to ...

When Bonds set that record, he swung bats made out of maple, not ash. ESPN wrote about this at the time. Bonds said then, "I tried it and I liked it. Ash wood is a softer wood that has a tendency ...

Of lesser interest, the ol’ reliable wood bat itself. That was ... and about a dozen more birch or maple bats this spring.

“Remember when they had the maple wood bats when Bonds was using them and everyone saw Bonds hitting the ball a third of the way across McCovey Cove,” Krukow said. “Well, everybody wanted ...

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

“Remember when they had the maple wood bats when Bonds was using them and everyone saw Bonds hitting the ball a third of the way across McCovey Cove,” Krukow said. “Well, everybody wanted ...

The next year, 2,000. In addition to the maple bats' durability, players liked that they allowed them to hit for greater power; the hardness of the wood transmitted more energy from the bat to the ...

After the first weekend of Major League Baseball, all the talk is about the “torpedo bats” the New York Yankees introduced — and you can count San Francisco Giants broadcaster Mike Krukow as ...