Texas teams Melissa and Katy enter the week as country's top two teams; New Jersey's St. John-Vianney and Donovan Catholic ...

supporting invertebrates and seed-producing plants that provide food for farmland birds like yellowhammer, grey partridge, and linnet. Existing hedgerows and scrub will be enhanced with native ...

The combination of open grassland, scattered scrub and mature trees will provide such a wonderful variety of habitats supporting huge range of wildlife including birds, butterflies, beetles and bats .

The "torpedo" bat used by several players on the New York Yankees was created by Aaron Leanhardt, an MIT physicist who now coaches for the Miami Marlins. Leanhardt developed the torpedo bat from ...

You’ve been hearing all about torpedo bats of late, and with good reason. New equipment isn’t introduced to Major League Baseball often, but the torpedo bat represents a change in the design ...

The Bronx Bombers now have torpedoes in their arsenal. The wood of the bat is shifted from the barrel towards the batter's hands to create a custom sweet spot where contact is most frequently made.

Can anything defuse Major League Baseball's hottest hitting weapon? The so-called torpedo bats − the MLB-legal, tailor-made bats with weight distribution toward the barrel − have become the ...

They wanted to make more contact with pitches and they wanted to strike the ball more often with the bat’s “sweet spot,” or the densest area. “They’re going to point to a location on the ...

Torpedo bats are the explosive new trend in baseball after the New York Yankees set a franchise record Saturday, hitting nine home runs — the first four of which were back to back to back to ...

And at the center of it all? “Torpedo” bats. The Bronx Bombers tied an MLB record as they hit 15 home runs in their opening three-game series – including a franchise-record nine in their 20 ...

For the MIT-educated physicist behind the torpedo bat, it's more about the talent of the players than their lumber at the plate. The torpedo model — a striking design in which wood is moved ...