For his first day of work in June 1999, Scott Smith arrived at the makeshift bat factory, a three-level brick corner house in ...

The torpedo is the talk of 2025, but bat experiments have changed baseball and created controversy for 150 years.

Step into the world of maple wood baseball bat creation, where skilled artisans transform raw wood into a finely crafted masterpiece. The journey begins with selecting the finest maple wood ...

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

The newest innovation in baseball, the bat has a seemingly inflated barrel that is thickest and heaviest where the player ...

After the first weekend of Major League Baseball, all the talk is about the “torpedo bats” the New York Yankees introduced — and you can count San Francisco Giants broadcaster Mike Krukow as a big fan ...

“Remember when they had the maple wood bats when Bonds was using them and everyone saw Bonds hitting the ball a third of the way across McCovey Cove,” Krukow said. “Well, everybody wanted ...

The next year, 2,000. In addition to the maple bats' durability, players liked that they allowed them to hit for greater power; the hardness of the wood transmitted more energy from the bat to the ...

Using a strikingly different model in which wood is moved lower down the barrel after the label and shapes the end a little ...