Torpedo bats drew attention over the weekend when the New York Yankees hit a team-record nine homers in one game.

The Major League Baseball season is just underway and, while some athletes are making their major league debut, so is the ...

Torpedo bats are just the latest innovation in the design of baseball bats, some of which stuck, and others which ... did not ...

The long ball has become an integral part of modern college baseball. Granted ... the college game should transition to using wooden bats. Johnson is not among them. He argues home runs and ...

A typical wooden baseball bat only gets wider from the handle to the barrel, while a torpedo bat gets wider toward the center of the barrel then tapers. The end shape resembles that of a bowling ...

Perhaps the team's newly-designed wooden bats had something to do with it? Yankees play-by-play broadcaster Michael Kay detailed during the game how New York redesigned its wooden bats thanks to a ...

Yankees TV announcer Michael Kay explained that the Yankees modified the bats used by Chisholm Jr. and Volpe to put a fatter part of the wood where ... a hitting coach in baseball.