The New York Yankees shook Major League baseball during their March 29th game against the Milwaukee Brewers due to their use of experimental bats. The new bat deviates from the traditional MLB bat ...

Richards Congress Avenue, as they wait for over a million Mexican free-tailed bats to swarm away in search of food. The stream of bats flying from the bridge begins each dusk and continues all the ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Did you know that the Mexican free-tailed bat is Texas’ official flying mammal? These bats are beneficial to the state, helping with insect control and pollination. Bats ...

One of the more bizarre stories from the early portion of the 2025 season in baseball has been the emergence of the "torpedo bats" that the Yankees have popularized. Essentially, the new bat design ...

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.

A new study from Tel Aviv University reveals that the greater mouse-tailed bat (Rhinopoma microphyllum) uses its long tail as a natural tactile sensor to navigate backward in dark caves.

Before then, Leanhardt had never really thought about the design of bats, any more than he’d thought about his glove or his spikes, he recently told reporters. But he was well positioned to ...

The "torpedo" bat used by several players on the New York Yankees was created by Aaron Leanhardt, an MIT physicist who now coaches for the Miami Marlins. Leanhardt developed the torpedo bat from ...

The early story of the MLB season across big-league clubhouses has been the torpedo bats. Though the bat design isn't necessarily new, the Yankees' season-opening homer barrage was impossible to ...

Adam Minter is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering the business of sports. He is the author, most recently, of “Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale." Fans have a reason to be ...

Jared Smith speaks about torpedo baseball bats during an interview at Victus Sports in King of Prussia, Pa., Wednesday, April 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. (AP ...

BUCKHEAD, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — After a sluggish start to the season, the Atlanta Braves are searching for a spark. That’s why the team has ordered a series of new, innovative bats gaining ...