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

According to Steven Bratkovich, author of "The Baseball Bat: From Trees to the Major Leagues, 19th Century to Today", Roger Maris used a 33-ounce ash bat when he broke Babe Ruth's home run record in ...

The New York Yankees quietly brought a physics experiment to the plate. Then came the home-run barrage.

For his first day of work in June 1999, Scott Smith arrived at the makeshift bat factory, a three-level brick corner house in Ottawa with a stop sign sprouting up from the tree-lawn shrubs.

After the Yankees did what they did that opening weekend with the bat, demand around professional baseball for the ‘torpedo’ surged. Overfly, an MLB approved bat maker with a facility in El ...

Baseball bats have been made out of hickory — a dense ... until the availability of ash became a problem when the trees became endangered due to ash borers feeding on them.