Baseball bat manufacturers had little evidence ... and to meet trickle-down demand it anticipates from youth and collegiate wood-bat leagues. One of the biggest wrinkles Hillerich has encountered ...

Torpedo bats, however, could come into play in the spring and summer when fields such as the Midland Baseball Complex in Batavia host youth and high school league teams that use wood bats.

After nearly 150 years of professional baseball, the traditional wood baseball bat is getting a makeover, and the early returns have been eye-popping. A handful of New York Yankees players praised ...

If you were making a bowling pin on a lathe and suddenly decided to make a baseball bat instead ... president of PFS-TECO, a wood products company that inspects bats used in the MLB.

A metro Detroit-based custom baseball equipment maker has had ... The company specializes in making custom wood bats for youth to professional players as well as fully customized batting and ...

Founded in 1945, the Humboldt Crabs are the oldest, continuously-operated, collegiate, independent, wood-bat, summer baseball ...

“But it’s odd because baseball ... the bats were the talk of clubhouses around the sport. In Washington, Nationals shortstop CJ Abrams was telling outfielder James Wood, who ordered some ...

Hillerich & Bradsby — the Louisville-based company that makes the Louisville Slugger bats — worked with players and engineers for 18 months to design the torpedo bats. While the torpedo bat ...

Baseball bats have been made out of hickory — a dense, heavy wood that helps explain why the bats sluggers used in the earlier days of the game weighed as much as Dustin Pedroia did — and out ...

The long ball has become an integral part of modern college baseball ... with wooden bats, having played in wooden bat leagues growing up. "Obviously, summer ball is wood bat as well.