Before he was putting his intellect to use crafting a baseball bat that would allow the New York Yankees to tie home run records, Aaron Leanhardt spent years studying and teaching physics. Leanhardt ...

Volpe’s relationship with Victus Sports, the bat company in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, has been public knowledge for years. He has swung their lumber since he was 13. When the Yankees looked for a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aaron "Lenny" Leanheardt, an MIT grad and former physics professor-turned-analyst at the Yankees, tells ABC affiliate WPLG how he ...

Aaron Leanhardt, the former Michigan physics professor who got his PhD at MIT and was part of the Yankees organization for six-and-a-half years, had a simple question he was trying to answer when ...

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A number of Yankees are utilizing a novel bat shape — a seemingly inflated barrel that is thickest and heaviest where the player most frequently makes contact, then narrowing at the end. The ...

When Aaron Leanhardt was a graduate student in physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he was part of a research team that cooled sodium gas to the lowest temperature ever recorded in ...