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 ...

Unless you play Major League Baseball, you have a choice when it comes to picking the material for your bat. Your options are wood, aluminum or composite. Each of these materials provides the player ...

JOPLIN, MO. — Local athletes taking part in the iconic Mickey Mantle Classic baseball tournament are presented with a unique challenge; turning from aluminum bats to wooden bats. “The difference ...

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 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 ...

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 ...