April 23rd, 2025 by Matthew Brown When modern baseball fans hear that Babe Ruth’s bat weighed 44 ounces, they usually think ...

A chunk of wood could outprice a Ferrari—wild, right? When it’s the very bat Babe Ruth used to blast balls into the Bronx sky ...

Perhaps the biggest difference and one that is amplified in lower leagues is durability, something that metal bats have and wooden bats can’t match. Each broken bat means a new bat that needs to ...

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

NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images From the beginning, the partnership between players and their bats have been personal affairs, with everything from length to weight to wood preference ...

In essence, these are bats engineered in a slightly different way, with the goal being to move more wood to the spot on the barrel where contact is made the most. The idea is that when you make ...

The New York Yankees shook Major League baseball during their March 29th game against the Milwaukee Brewers due to their use of experimental bats. The new bat deviates from the traditional MLB bat ...

Both Haws and Franchuk want the younger players to get comfortable with all wooden bats, including the torpedo bats. Franchuk puts it this way. “I like to have guys hit with wood as much as ...

In addition to their durability, players liked the maple bats because they found that they allowed them to hit for greater power; the hardness of the wood transmitted more energy from the bat to ...

The bat shall be one piece of solid wood.” Based on these criteria, the torpedo bats are fully compliant and permitted for use in official play. So what separates a torpedo bat from a standard bat?

And that's why there's been so much talk over the last week about bats. Unlike normal wooden bats, which are widest close to the end, torpedo bats are slightly fatter a few inches closer to the middle ...