San Francisco Giants broadcaster and former MLB pitcher Mike Krukow called the new "torpedo" bats from the Yankees "genius" ...

Some Yankees players used a new bat during the second game in the Major League Baseball season against the Milwaukee Brewers.

Hiroyuki Kato, an associate professor of mechanics and materials at Hokkaido University, has researched bat lumber. Maple is the hardest wood, followed by yellow birch and Japanese ash ...

The long ball has become an integral part of modern college baseball ... with wooden bats, having played in wooden bat leagues growing up. "Obviously, summer ball is wood bat as well.