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 ...

Torpedo bats in MLB are here to stay — and could spark further exploration for a technological edge in baseball and beyond.

A chunk of wood could outprice a Ferrari—wild, right? When it’s the very bat Babe Ruth used to blast balls into the Bronx sky ...

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 ...

Johnson said the uptick in homers has led some SEC coaches to believe the college game should transition to using wooden bats. Johnson is not among them. He argues home runs and high scores have ...

Perhaps the team's newly-designed wooden bats had something to do with it? Yankees play-by-play broadcaster Michael Kay detailed during the game how New York redesigned its wooden bats thanks to a ...