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 ...

Lawmakers, leagues take a closer look at the safety of aluminum bats. SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT — The collision of an aluminum bat and a baseball produces a distinctive “ping,” a sound of summer heard on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A generation of Little Leaguers knows the distinctive sound that a baseball makes when it’s hit with a metal bat. But that sound will never be heard again at New York high schools, thanks to the City ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last week's Question of the Week asked whether metal bats should be banned from organized youth baseball. The response was huge, with more than four out of five favoring a ban. Among 1,667 responses — ...

Me too, I keep wondering if that was a typo and it's the ball that compresses differently with a wood bat vs an aluminum bat. My son just started 6th grade and we're deep into the whole little league ...