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I’m just playing baseball.” That the Yankees had a historically great game, and that some players were using funny-looking ...
The torpedo is the talk of 2025, but bat experiments have changed baseball and created controversy for 150 years.
The torpedo bat's rise has changed the industry for the companies that make them. Here is one bat-maker's story.
Torpedo bats drew attention over the weekend when the New York Yankees hit a team-record nine homers in one game.
In the late 1990s, an Ottawa man changed bat technology with the creation of maple bats. Soon, almost every major leaguer ...
MIT physicist Aaron Leanhardt has been credited with creating the torpedo bats. Leanhardt previously served as a hitting ...
Torpedo bats are changing Major League Baseball, but with his head in the sand, MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred wants us to know: "Nothing to see here!" ...
"I think it’s an amazing discovery," said Angels outfielder Taylor Ward, one of many players suddenly interested in the new ...
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 ...
Never one to shy away from a controversial topic, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred lauded “torpedo” bats as the future of America ...
Inside, the many stacks of wood seem a proper fixture given the area's lumber history. It's here, at Maine Billets, that torpedo bats — which have taken Major League Baseball by storm this ...
Torpedo bats are all the rage this season, and Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred believes all that chatter is ...