If you were making a bowling pin on a lathe and suddenly decided to make a baseball ... ball. "If they're making contact at the same place in the barrel all the time, what can we do about the bat ...

“But it’s odd because baseball is such a traditionalist ... “It looks like a Mark McGwire kids’ bat that you grow up playing Wiffle ball with,” said Nationals slugger Josh Bell, who ...

Torpedo bats are all the rage in Major League Baseball ... ball and therefore the mass shouldn't be there. And that this universal claim that it's good to take away mass from the barrel end of the ...

Perfectly named bat, really. Groh’s career took place both immediately before and after Baseball’s Deadball era, and since the ball in that time was practically made out of rolled up socks and ...

Though it seems like common sense that adding heft to the part of the bat where a player hits the ball would be advantageous, several physicists who study baseball bats told me that’s not ...

all in the name of getting bat to ball as rapidly as possible and repelling the pitch as far as possible. That explains the broad view of baseball-bat history, one as aerial as, say, a certain ...

"When you look at the design of a classic baseball bat, the physics just don't add up," said Pritchard. "When the ball comes in and hits the sweet spot, it bends the bat and so some of the energy ...

Leanhardt had spent seven years as a physics professor at the University of Michigan before leaving academia to become a baseball coach ... that where the ball hits the bat matters enormously ...