Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – “Torpedo bats” have recently been all the rage in Major League Baseball. The New York Yankees ...

On opening weekend, some New York Yankees stepped to the plate with bats that looked slightly off, thick in an unusual place, tapered in a way baseball fans are not used to seeing. Then came the home ...

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. — A 70-year-old man who plays in an area senior hardball league popped into Victus Sports this week because he needed bats for the new season. Plus he just had to take some cuts ...

Torpedo bats are all the rage this season, and Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred believes all that chatter is positive for the sport. “They’re absolutely good for baseball,” Manfred said ...

PHILADELPHIA — Bryson Stott doubled, homered, walked twice, scored three runs and drove in two in the Phillies' victory last Saturday in Washington. By any standard, it was a satisfying day at the ...

Baseball bat manufacturers had little evidence to suggest a spike in sales was just around the corner when Major League Baseball’s newest season opened last week. It had been four years since ...

The "torpedo bat" trend in baseball has taken over the internet and permeated clubhouses all over Major League Baseball as players and fans try to quickly learn what it is. The torpedo bats, which are ...

In his playing days, Eric Gagne’s objective was simple. “My job was to break bats,” the former Dodgers closer joked with a laugh. Which makes his current occupation, as chief executive of Quebec-based ...

Despite the eyebrows raised by the look of the bats and the results the Yankees enjoyed swinging them, there's no question about the legality of the torpedo bats. MLB Rule 3.02 states that a bat ...

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 with a stop sign sprouting up from the tree-lawn shrubs. Sam Holman ...