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

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

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 ...

April 23rd, 2025 by Matthew Brown When modern baseball fans hear that Babe Ruth’s bat weighed 44 ounces, they usually think ...

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.

Acres of trees will be felled and shaped to ... reflected the way hitters have used and assessed bats since the advent of baseball: They'll pick up bats and see how they feel, their interest ...

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.