The crack of a ball hitting off a wooden bat and echoing throughout a stadium is central to the ethos and mythology of baseball, the kind of sound that conjures images and memories of picturesque ...

CITYWIDE — The familiar “ping” sound of a ball springing off an aluminum bat has long been associated with high school baseball. In Santa Monica and the rest of California, that sound may soon be a ...

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When I first started working on today’s commentary, I was planning on talking about torpedo shaped baseball bats, which is this relatively new phenomenon of moving the sweet spot of the bat a few ...

The torpedo bat has gained attention in baseball circles, but its potential arrival in Texas high school play remains uncertain. While the innovative bat isn’t used in the UIL, some coaches believe it ...

At issue is whether aluminum bats have made baseball unnecessarily dangerous. On one side are those who say baseballs fly off these bats much faster than they do wood bats and have led to severe ...

OAK LAWN, Ill. (AP) — Bill Kalant never had a chance to get out of the way of the baseball that put him, as doctors told his father, “on the cliff of death.” The pitcher’s parents, sitting a few feet ...