Backyard Bats, a custom wood baseball bat manufacturer, was founded in 2004 across the Detroit River in Windsor by John and Paul LaMantia, but moved to Washington Township with Paul and Ryan LaPensee ...

On-field umpires in the IPL are now conducting random bat dimension checks during live games to prevent unfair advantages ...

For his first day of work in June 1999, Scott Smith arrived at the makeshift bat factory, a three-level brick corner house in ...

The UF bat houses' population dropped to less than 100,000 bats. Experts say the bats population are recovering, and mating ...

With a deep commitment to conservation and environmental education, the preserve has introduced 26 handcrafted wooden homes ...

Though bats keep the insect population in check, you don’t want them living under your roof. Here’s what to do if you find ...

In the late 1990s, an Ottawa man changed bat technology with the creation of maple bats. Soon, almost every major leaguer ...

Despite a wave of online speculation, it’s important to clarify that torpedo bats are, in fact, legal. According to MLB.com, ...

It’d be in 2026.” Torpedo bats drew attention recently when the New York Yankees hit a team-record nine homers in one game. With several players using a strikingly different model in which wood is ...

The story of the 2025 MLB season so far is the torpedo bat designed by Miami Marlins coach and former MIT physicist Aaron ...

Using a strikingly different model in which wood is moved lower down the barrel after the label and shapes the end a little like a bowling pin, the bat has become baseball's latest fad.