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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

Newly designed metal bats are keeping scores down in the College Baseball World Series now underway in Omaha, Neb. The new bats feature "sweet spots" that are smaller than they were previously in an ...

People are also reading… Proponents of metal argue that all 301 Division I programs play with the same thing and there's no risk of having top programs playing with better wooden bats, potentially ...

In the wake of the World Series, many hopeful young players will head to the batting cages to emulate the swings of major leaguers with one key difference: They will use metal, not wooden bats. But ...