Calvin Forrest bristles at the vibration that ripples down his arm when he hits with an aluminum baseball bat. So perhaps more than any teammate, the Cardozo senior first baseman is looking forward to ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

In the wake of the World Series, many hopeful young players will head to the batting cages to emulate the swings of major leaguers with one key difference: They will use metal, not wooden bats. But ...

The New York Yankees set a franchise record for home runs with nine on Saturday at home against the Milwaukee Brewers. Perhaps the team's newly-designed wooden bats had something to do with it?

BURNSVILLE, Minn. — After nearly 150 years of professional baseball, the traditional wood baseball bat is getting a makeover, and the early returns have been eye-popping. A handful of New York Yankees ...

The crack of a ball hitting off a wooden bat and echoing throughout a stadium is central to the ethos and mythology of baseball, the kind of sound that conjures images and memories of picturesque ...

The curiosity of it all is that for as much the baseball bat itself has changed, the rules presiding over those changes have changed very little. Here are the bat regulations laid out during a ...