the majors are the only place you'll find wooden bats these days. A whole generation is growing up with a preference for another type, beginning the steady decline of one of baseball's most iconic ...

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 ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Xylo Bats is a company in Texas crafting custom wooden baseball bats. Owner Leland Wetzel made his first bat in 2012, and now the company produces over 1,000 bats a ...

The wooden bats Dave Gulick creates have made it to the palms of many baseball players. Little League batters have hit home runs with them and professional sluggers have been struck out swinging ...

Under the terms of the partnership, Mine Baseball will have a presence at nearly all of Perfect Game's annual events where wood bats are used, including tournaments, showcases and select special ...

The long ball has become an integral part of modern college baseball. Granted ... the college game should transition to using wooden bats. Johnson is not among them. He argues home runs and ...

In the late 1980s, there was talk that Major League Baseball might consider replacing wooden bats with aluminum bats, as a cost-saving measure. It never happened. For that, we may have our own Sen.

Chaffee’s one-man mission: to bring back the sweet sound of wood cracking a baseball – one bat at a time. “When I played, it was all wooden bats,” said Chaffee, 56, a left-handed catcher ...

On June 5th this year at Boston’s Fenway Park, a fan watching the game was struck in the face by pieces of a broken baseball ... bats stemming from Barry Bonds’ successful use of that wood ...