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 ...

You know Americans have a way of tinkering with things that sometimes need to be left alone. The great game of baseball was designed to be played with wood bats. So why are thousands of kids across ...

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 ...

Torpedo bats have been the talk of baseball season so far after a record-setting home-run performance by the New York Yankees during Major League Baseball’s opening weekend and, closer to home, a big ...

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

From blank wood to a stunning baseball bat! ⚾ Watch the step-by-step creation, tips, and techniques in this detailed ...

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 ...

You’ve been hearing all about torpedo bats of late, and with good reason. New equipment isn’t introduced to Major League Baseball often, but the torpedo bat represents a change in the design of a ...

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 with a stop sign sprouting up from the tree-lawn shrubs. Sam Holman ...

Max Zitomer is used to receiving a lot of phone calls this time of the year as the spring baseball and softball season gets underway. But the owner and founder of Closeout Bats, a popular family-owned ...