Many youth or amateur baseball players are more familiar with using aluminum baseball bats or training bats made with composite materials, but professional baseball players must use traditional wooden ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Xylo Bats is a company in Texas crafting custom wooden baseball bats. Owner Leland Wetzel made his first bat in 2012, and now the company produces over 1,000 bats a ...

BELOIT — To the inner old schooler in Beloit Youth Baseball Association president Matt Huffman, it doesn’t get much better than hearing the noise that a wooden bat creates on a hot summer day. “For ...

Owner Ted Nytes of Home Town Bats joins us in studio to share his journey from making cabinets to crafting wooden baseball bats. He provides details for the Home Town Bats Home Run Derby, a fundraiser ...

The crack of a baseball off a wooden bat is one of the most gratifying and distinct sounds in all of sports, a noise that has helped provide the soundtrack of idyllic summer days and nights for more ...

The long ball has become an integral part of modern college baseball. Granted, this isn't a new development. Home runs were plentiful in the late 1990s with the rise of "Geauxrilla Ball." But the ...

Rifle High School summer baseball nabbed a championship win last week at a 16-team wooden bat tournament in Pocatello, Idaho. Head coach Troy Phillips said the Bears, made up of varsity and junior ...

The crack of a ball hitting off a wooden bat and echoing throughout a stadium is central to the ethos and mythology of baseball, the kind of sound that conjures images and memories of picturesque ...