He figured he couldn’t make a sturdier ash bat. Those had been perfected since the 1880s, when it took six balls to draw a walk. He needed a different source of wood. He visited Ottawa’s ...

Even so, more than 150 years since the advent of major league baseball, the source of wood for bats is not a settled, consensus part of the game. Birch is used in some bat models, and bamboo is ...

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 ...

The torpedo model has a striking design in which wood is moved lower ... slider with a normal bat, a torpedo bat isn’t going to help. On the latest episode of "Baseball Bar-B-Cast," Jake and ...