You know you’ve reached the big leagues when Yasiel Puig licks your bat. “He used them in the (2018) World Series and got an RBI hit, and that was a watershed moment for us,” says Cody Silveria, the ...

"I like being a local guy," Tom Gandolph creates custom bats for baseball players across Indiana in southisde garage.

Ahead of his team's spring training opener, Bryce Harper dawned a bat featuring a likeness of Phillie Phanatic, the mascot of the Philadelphia Phillies. Despite undergoing Tommy John surgery last ...

Somewhere Joseph Schumpeter is smiling. The reason, Dave Jones. Schumpeter, an Austrian-American economist, popularized the term creative destruction to describe how economies reinvent themselves ...

IRWINDALE – Mario Valdes gets lost in his work. “When you are making a bat, you are taken to a whole other world,” said the owner of Glomar Enterprises in Irwindale. “You just block everything else ...

The saying goes that when life hands you lemons, you make lemonade. But what happens if life hands you an enormous supply of lumber? If you're John Smatana, owner of Johnnyville Slugger, you start ...

Baseball bat manufacturer Louis Ledoux of Axis Bats is on the hunt to present special bats to long-time city contributors.

Texas might be a football state, but our biggest city holds the World Series title, cementing baseball as part of our cultural identity. This summer, tens of thousands of fans will soak up the ...

Finding the right baseball bat for your Little Leaguer has always been a trial-and-error process. Some stores display fitting charts, primarily based off a child’s ...

IRWINDALE – Mario Valdes gets lost in his work. “When you are making a bat, you are taken to a whole other world,” said the owner of Glomar Enterprises in Irwindale. “You just block everything else ...