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 ...

It's no secret that baseball players are a superstitious lot. Watch any game, be it professional or amateur, and you won't have to wait long to see a player perform a specific routine. It might be ...

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 ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I., Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Concerns that metal or composite carbon fiber bats used in youth baseball hit balls too fast compared to wood bats are unfounded, Rhode Island researchers say.

While state high school athletic associations across the country continue to struggle to regulate the legality of different metal bats -- just check out the headaches that Virginia lived through this ...

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 ...

WEST WARWICK, R.I.—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 bats that ...

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 ...