MENARDS. BASEBALL SEASON MAY BE OVER, BUT IF YOU LISTEN CLOSELY, YOU CAN STILL HEAR THE CRACK OF THE BAT AND DEPENDING ON THE WOOD YOU’RE USING THAT SOUND IS GOING TO BE VERY DIFFERENT WITH BATS LIKE ...

There's a voracious little bug destroying forests across the eastern U.S. Scientists say emerald ash borers, exotic beetles imported accidentally from Asia, have killed as many as 50 million trees.

CHICAGO - It's known as the Marucci KB17.2, turned from solid ash wood, and built to the liking of Chicago Cubs third baseman Kris Bryant. Fellow Cubs player Matt Szczur liked the design well enough ...

Baseball bats don’t top the U.S. Senate’s agenda these days, as legislators grapple with a U.S. Supreme Court nomination, the covid-19 pandemic and the Nov. 3 election. But for Senate Minority Leader ...

Leatherstocking Hand-Split Billet Co. knows its wood. The wood that makes some of the best bats found in Major League Baseball. Located in the epicenter of this wood in Upstate New York, ...

Is enough ash wood available for baseball to ban maple bats? A prominent bat manufacturer says yes. Baseball says no. The issue, like so much else with the controversy over maple bats, is not as ...

When St. Louis Cardinals third baseman Matt Carpenter picked up a bat for the 2016 baseball season opener Sunday against the Pittsburgh Pirates, he selected one made of maple. These days, maple is the ...

For his first day of work in June 1999, Scott Smith arrived at the makeshift bat factory, a three-level brick corner house in Ottawa, Ontario. Sam Holman handed Smith an order form: six bats, all for ...