Many maple bats will be banned in the minor leagues this season, part of Major League Baseball's push to stop shattered shards of wood from flying dangerously through the air. New regulations will ...

Frequently, amateur baseball players use metal or composite bats, and professionals use wood bats. However, there may be times where amateur and youth players want to use a wood bat, either for ...

Someone's going to die at a baseball stadium soon. Might be a player. Could be an umpire. Possibly even a fan. It almost was a coach. The scar on Don Long's left cheek still puffs around the edges, ...

MaxBat, the company in Brooten that manufactures baseball bats, many that are used by major league players, has a slogan that reads "Our maple kicks ash". But some people in baseball are now trying 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 Ottawa, Ontario. Sam Holman handed Smith an order form: six bats, all for ...

Maple wood bats, like the one that broke and seriously injured a fan at Boston’s Fenway Park this month, became the favored tools of Major League Baseball players over ash models when Barry Bonds set ...

If a bat doesn't feel right to Washington Nationals outfielder Bryce Harper, he'll toss it right away. Harper can just tell it's all wrong. He likes ash wood bats in the winter. Maple wood bats are ...

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 ...

Eric Byrnes of the Arizona Diamondbacks popped up and immediately slammed his bat to the ground. The bat shattered, and chunks of wood hit Florida Marlins catcher Miguel Olivo in the cheek, forehead ...