Frequently, amateur baseball players use metal or composite bats, and professionals use wood bats. However, there may be times where amateur and youth players want to use a wood bat, either for ...

Less than a week after Major League Baseball announced new regulations in December concerning maple-wood bat production, a bat manufacturer named Romeo Filip sent an email to the owners and operators ...

Colvin remained hospitalized in stable condition Monday night. He will not play again during the 2010 season. The incident was not the first time a shattered bat has caused injuries at a major league ...

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, Ontario. Sam Holman handed Smith an order form: six bats, all for ...

If a bat doesn't feel right to Washington Nationals outfielder Bryce Harper, he'll toss it right away. Harper can just tell it's all wrong. He likes ash wood bats in the winter. Maple wood bats are ...

If you’re an aspiring baseball player hoping to make it to the big leagues someday, or even if you play recreationally with friends on weekends, you need high-quality equipment to perform at a high ...

Someone's going to die at a baseball stadium soon. Might be a player. Could be an umpire. Possibly even a fan. It almost was a coach. The scar on Don Long's left cheek still puffs around the edges, ...

Ted Williams looked for bats with knots in the barrel because, he thought, the compressed wood within the gnarls would return more energy upon impact with a pitched baseball. It’s the same reason that ...