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 ...

This week’s Made in Connecticut is about the story of one man's major league dreams that became all about bats. Pete Tucci is the founder of Tucci Lumber Bats in Norwalk. The company, which has gained ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If state Rep. Mike Carroll has his way, the unmistakable pinging sound of a ball being hit by an aluminum bat won’t be heard any longer at many baseball and softball diamonds in Pennsylvania. Carroll, ...

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 ...

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 ...