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 ...

Entrepreneur Todd Eschman has a passion for America’s favorite pastime — baseball — and not just the modern game. He has developed a love for vintage league baseball and how it was played in the 1800s ...

Watch any Major League Baseball game and you’re likely to see at least one bat broken. What do they do with all that white ash and maple? Well, if you’re Josh Tomsha of Irvine, you make pens out of ...

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 ...

For Cal Ripken Jr., the resounding crack of a wooden bat striking a baseball in the sweet spot was the sound of spring — much more satisfying than the “ping” or “bink” heard when a youth player with ...

There’s a familiarity when you walk onto a baseball field. You don’t even need to open your eyes to know where you are. The smell of cut grass, the feel of dirt under your cleats and the energy of a ...

Aluminum bats have replaced their wooden counterparts as the bat of choice in youth and recreation leagues. (Star-Ledger File Photo) Recently at Citi Field, I heard a fan screaming "Put some wood on ...

In the late 1980s, there was talk that Major League Baseball might consider replacing wooden bats with aluminum bats, as a cost-saving measure. It never happened. For that, we may have our own Sen.