and the ball is more likely to make contact with the bat’s thickest section, leading to a more solid hit. A traditional baseball bat has a skinny handle that flares into a barrel of about the ...

By the time Cal Ripken Jr. cracked his 3Kth hit on April 15, 2000, he had already rewritten the definition of durability in baseball. This PSA GU 10 bat, used in that milestone moment, marked him ...

Torpedo bats are all the rage in Major League Baseball these days ... the quality of contact made on a given connection with the ball. Long's full quote about what he deemed a "fallacy" is ...

Good thing for them that in last year's World Series most New York Yankees hitters had yet to equip themselves with the bat conceived by an MIT physicist turned baseball analytics nerd.

New "torpedo" baseball ... tinkering with bat styles began when players noticed the top of the bat was fattest but that wasn't where on the bat they were trying to hit the ball.

Torpedo baseball ... bats. The MLB does not allow aluminum bats, while the UIL allows both wooden and aluminum. “If Aaron Judge were to use an aluminum bat, he would hit the ball harder and ...

It turned out they’d been designed by an MIT-trained physicist and were tailored to each player’s swing, with the bulge positioned at the place on the bat where that player tends to hit the ball. Yes, ...

The bat was created because players "wanted to make more contact with pitches and they wanted to strike the ball more often," Aaron Leanhardt, an MIT physicist turned baseball coach who invented ...

Torpedo bats are all the rage this season, and Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred believes all that chatter is positive for the sport. “They’re absolutely good for baseball ...

Nottingham Crown Court heard how police were called to the disturbance in Bakersfield and saw them recover a baseball bat and knife from a car driven to the scene by Ashley Hands. Despite another ...