The crack of a baseball off a wooden bat is one of the most gratifying and distinct sounds in all of sports, a noise that has helped provide the soundtrack of idyllic summer days and nights for more ...

While meant to simulate wood bats, regulation USA Baseball metal bats are more forgiving than wood for young players who might not connect with the ball on a bat's optimal 'sweet spot.' After testing ...

The crack of a ball hitting off a wooden bat and echoing throughout a stadium is central to the ethos and mythology of baseball, the kind of sound that conjures images and memories of picturesque ...

Once baseball players join the professional ranks, their days of playing games with metal bats are effectively over. It's all wood bats, and there's a very good reason for that: It's legitimately ...

Point Loma Nazarene University’s baseball team swept its way through the NCAA Tournament’s West Regional and into the Super-Regional. They outscored their opponents 24-9, but that was not the most ...

Virginia Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly said two staffers were injured Monday by a man wielding a bat who came into his district office in Fairfax. Connolly told CNN that the assailant who entered his ...

A generation of Little Leaguers knows the distinctive sound that a baseball makes when it’s hit with a metal bat. But that sound will never be heard again at New York high schools, thanks to the City ...

Newly designed metal bats are keeping scores down in the College Baseball World Series now underway in Omaha, Neb. The new bats feature "sweet spots" that are smaller than they were previously in an ...

Last week's Question of the Week asked whether metal bats should be banned from organized youth baseball. The response was huge, with more than four out of five favoring a ban. Among 1,667 responses — ...