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 with a stop sign sprouting up from the tree-lawn shrubs. Sam Holman ...

Many maple bats will be banned in the minor leagues this season, part of Major League Baseball's push to stop shattered shards of wood from flying dangerously through the air. New regulations will ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...