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 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 ...

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 ...

CITYWIDE — The familiar “ping” sound of a ball springing off an aluminum bat has long been associated with high school baseball. In Santa Monica and the rest of California, that sound may soon be a ...

People are also reading… Proponents of metal argue that all 301 Division I programs play with the same thing and there's no risk of having top programs playing with better wooden bats, potentially ...

Once baseball players join the professional ranks, their days of playing games with metal bats are effectively over. It's all wood bats, and there's a very good reason for that: It's legitimately ...

Point Loma Nazarene University’s baseball team swept its way through the NCAA Tournament’s West Regional and into the Super-Regional. They outscored their opponents 24-9, but that was not the most ...