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 ...

The torpedo bat has gained attention in baseball circles, but its potential arrival in Texas high school play remains ...

The bats have a striking design in which wood is moved lower down the barrel and the end is shaped a little like a bowling ...

Some Major League Baseball players are changing up the type of bat they use in favor of ones that feature the thickest part ...

The newest innovation in baseball, the bat has a seemingly inflated barrel that is thickest and heaviest where the player most frequently makes contact.

Yankees play-by-play broadcaster Michael Kay detailed during the game how New York redesigned its wooden bats thanks to a ...

Many of the Yankees used torpedo bats while posting historic numbers this weekend. Here's how the team started using the ...

Perhaps the team's newly-designed wooden bats had something to do with it ... "[New York] moved a lot of the wood into the label so the harder part of the bat is going to actually strike the ...

Developed by a physicist, these bats have their widest part, called the barrel, closer to the player's hands to offer a better chance of hitting the ball on their "sweet spot" ...

"[New York] moved a lot of the wood into the label ... On the latest episode of "Baseball Bar-B-Cast," Jake and Jordan broke down baseball's latest phenomenon: Torpedo bats. The last time two ...

Plus he just had to take some cuts with baseball's latest fad and see ... the left-handed hitter ordered on the spot four custom-crafted torpedo bats at $150 a pop. “The litmus test that I ...