The bat punctured his chest. It flew through the air and punctured the chest of the Chicago Cubs’ Tyler Colvin over 50 feet away from home plate. That’s a really big splinter. Colvin, who is currently ...

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, Ontario. Sam Holman handed Smith an order form: six bats, all for ...

Many maple bats will be banned in the minor leagues this season, part of Major League Baseball's push to stop shattered shards of wood from flying dangerously through the air. New regulations will ...

Many youth or amateur baseball players are more familiar with using aluminum baseball bats or training bats made with composite materials, but professional baseball players must use traditional wooden ...

MaxBat, the company in Brooten that manufactures baseball bats, many that are used by major league players, has a slogan that reads "Our maple kicks ash". But some people in baseball are now trying to ...