HOUSTON - Houston bat-maker, OTW Bat Co., makes high-performance baseball bats that are certified for use in the major leagues. Last season, the company says it made some torpedo bat prototypes ...

The bats have caught the attention of fans and critics alike. Players who have won the career Grand Slam in men's golf Planning to retire at 65? Most Americans have to stop working earlier.

"It's new, it's unique," said Louisville Slugger bat maker Brian Hillerich. "No one's seen anything like it before." The torpedo bats feature an expanded midsection, which is where hitters are ...

As a result, shifting some wood from the end of the barrel to the sweet spot will not make the bat more powerful, Lloyd Smith, a mechanical engineer who studies ball-bat collisions at Washington ...

One was Australia’s richest man, Kerry Packer. The other was the soon-to-retire West Indies captain, Clive Lloyd. Packer and Hawke wanted the bespectacled Lloyd, nicknamed “Supercat”, to ...

MILWAUKEE – The first day Elly De La Cruz got his hands on one of those newly designed torpedo bats last week, he fell for baseball’s newest craze. “They brought one, I tried it in practice ...