Van Hoevenberg Olympic venue violated the Adirondack’s “Forever Wild” provisions. The group Protect the Adirondacks says the 2021 construction of the new Mountain Pass Lodge -- along with ...

Not everyone in Major League Baseball is enamored with the new torpedo bat craze, as one All-Star recently divulged. Los Angeles Dodgers infielder Max Muncy is among the players who gave the new ...

You’ve been hearing all about torpedo bats of late, and with good reason. New equipment isn’t introduced to Major League Baseball often, but the torpedo bat represents a change in the design ...

Torpedo bats are all the rage this season, and Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred believes all that chatter is positive for the sport. "They're absolutely good for baseball," Manfred ...

For his first day of work in June 1999, Scott Smith arrived at the makeshift bat factory, a three-level brick corner house in Ottawa with a stop sign sprouting up from the tree-lawn shrubs.

(WKOW) — Baseball is a game of adjustments, but there's one adjustment in the MLB that's changing the game. There's a new bat causing shockwaves in baseball and it's called the torpedo bat. But what ...

The "torpedo" bat used by several players on the New York Yankees was created by Aaron Leanhardt, an MIT physicist who now coaches for the Miami Marlins. Leanhardt developed the torpedo bat from ...

Before then, Leanhardt had never really thought about the design of bats, any more than he’d thought about his glove or his spikes, he recently told reporters. But he was well positioned to ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — As Major League Baseball teams look for an edge, some players have turned to a unique bat that’s already making waves. The “torpedo bat,” a bowling pin-shaped bat ...

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. — A 70-year-old man who plays in an area senior hardball league popped into Victus Sports this week because he needed bats for the new season. Plus he just had to take some ...

Super grippy gloves in football created a whole genre of circus catches. Well, in baseball we have the bat. This season, the New York Yankees have begun to use a new design called the torpedo bat ...

NEW YORK — The Torpedo Bat Era isn’t even a week old. But in the short time since Yankees play-by-play man Michael Kay pointed out the team’s new, misshapen sticks on live TV, Torpedo Bat ...