While meant to simulate wood bats, regulation USA Baseball metal bats are more forgiving than wood for young players who might not connect with the ball on a bat's optimal 'sweet spot.' After testing ...

The National Federation of High School Associations has approved several new rule changes for high school baseball. The most prominent being the bat certification standard. The NFHS has officially ...

So often in recent years, baseballs have been the subject of controversy. How tightly are they wound? What is the height of their seams? What's inside them that might determine how far they fly? What ...

Miss hitting the "sweet spot" on a baseball bat and the resulting vibrations can zing your hands. Bat companies have tried for decades to reduce these painful shocks with limited success. But ...

No more than a few hours had passed since the New York Yankees finished mashing their ninth home run of the day Saturday when Pete Tucci noticed his phone lighting up. Tucci is the founder and owner ...

If you’re an aspiring baseball player hoping to make it to the big leagues someday, or even if you play recreationally with friends on weekends, you need high-quality equipment to perform at a high ...

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 ...

In his playing days, Eric Gagne’s objective was simple. “My job was to break bats,” the former Dodgers closer joked with a laugh. Which makes his current occupation, as chief executive of Quebec-based ...

Paul Lancisi, 58, got into the bat business in 2007 after his son, an aspiring baseball player, broke a bat that was supposed to be pro quality. Lancisi owned Dove Tail Furniture, a manufacturing ...

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 ...