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 ...

Aluminum bats have replaced their wooden counterparts as the bat of choice in youth and recreation leagues. (Star-Ledger File Photo) Recently at Citi Field, I heard a fan screaming "Put some wood on ...

WEST WARWICK, R.I. (AP) --The crack of the baseball bat is back. For years, the Rhode Island teams in the American Legion Baseball league -- the oldest nationwide youth program -- played with aluminum ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X For Cal Ripken Jr., the resounding crack of a wooden bat striking a baseball in the sweet spot was ...

There’s long been a debate in baseball circles about the respective benefits and drawbacks of using wood bats versus metal bats. However, there are relatively few scientific studies on the topic that ...