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

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.

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.

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 ...

An 82-year-old hunter from Alabama is currently recovering after he was attacked by a bobcat while he was turkey hunting. Claude Strother, a man who has called himself a hunter for over 50 years, was ...

The small-market Brewers always do it a little differently. Why would it have been any different on Wednesday when one of ...

Brewers third baseman Oliver Dunn made his way to the plate with a torpedo bat in hand with one out in the second inning and ...

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 ...

In his nearly 50 years in the woods, this was a first. “He thought I was a turkey. My yelping is real good," Strother said, ...

The Mariners' Cal Raleigh homered in three straight games with the new torpedo bat. Purists balk, but all legal avenues for adding offense should be explored.