Fans of the sport may be wondering whether or not metal bats are allowed in MLB. It is largely the only level of baseball that players hit with wood and not aluminum. Minor leagues also share the same ...

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 ...

The debate over wood bats versus metal bats comes to Southern California this week. The Diamond Sports National Classic, which begins Monday in Orange County, will use wood bats for the entire ...

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 ...

Metal baseball bats were first produced in the 1970s, as an economical alternative to traditional wooden bats, which needed to be replaced every time one broke. But as The Early Show's Dr. Emily Senay ...

There’s long been a debate in baseball circles about the respective benefits and drawbacks of using wood bats versus metal bats. However, there are relatively few scientific studies on the topic that ...

FOREST GROVE -- The fractured skull that Pacific University pitcher Tyler Fransen suffered when a comebacker struck him behind the right ear on March 20 serves as another case in the decades-old ...

GUNNAR Sandberg, a 16-year-old California high school pitcher, was hospitalized in critical condition after being struck in the head March 11 by a 100 mph line drive off a metal baseball bat. His ...