For his first day of work in June 1999, Scott Smith arrived at the makeshift bat factory, a three-level brick corner house in ...

The next year, 2,000. In addition to the maple bats' durability, players liked that they allowed them to hit for greater power; the hardness of the wood transmitted more energy from the bat to the ...

When Bonds set that record, he swung bats made out of maple, not ash. ESPN wrote about this at the time. Bonds said then, "I tried it and I liked it. Ash wood is a softer wood that has a tendency ...

Torpedo bats in MLB are here to stay — and could spark further exploration for a technological edge in baseball and beyond.

The torpedo is the talk of 2025, but bat experiments have changed baseball and created controversy for 150 years.

Some Major League Baseball players are changing up the type of bat they use in favor of ones that feature the thickest part ...

Paul LaMantia and Ryan LaPensee have learned a valuable lesson from early in the 2025 Major League Baseball season.

Backyard Bats, a custom wood baseball bat manufacturer, was founded in 2004 across the Detroit River in Windsor by John and Paul LaMantia, but moved to Washington Township with Paul and Ryan LaPensee ...

Dry Brook Sugar House is nestled amid maple forests on the border of New York and Vermont. During this year’s maple season, which can run from February to April, they made 4,000 gallons of maple ...

MIT physicist Aaron Leanhardt has been credited with creating the torpedo bats. Leanhardt previously served as a hitting ...