Bat technology has had five years to catch up to the NCAA’s BBCOR standards, which were instituted for the 2011 college season to better balance performance and safety in bats. Previously, bat ...

The baseball bat is a brutish creation, a blunt instrument created to pummel a round ball. Never has anyone accused it of being some sort of technological marvel. It exists in almost the exact form it ...

The folks at Axe Bats, a Baden Sports brand, say the round knob at the bottom of a baseball or fastpitch bat does nothing for you. In fact, it gets in your way, forcing players to choke up away from ...

RENTON, Wash. (AP) Players have been altering bats for decades in a bid to improve their grip - adding pine-tar or some specialized grip tape, maybe shaving the handle slightly to make it thinner.

Many baseball players are probably familiar with what the hamate bone is. Many of them have either injured it or have even broken it due to pressure from traditional round-knob bats. And in baseball, ...

The shape of a baseball bat hasn't changed much in the past 150 years, and the axe is many times older than that. By combining those age-old tools, however, the makers of the Axe Bat believe they can ...

RENTON, Wash. (April 16, 2019) – Axe Bat and Boise State University today announced a multiyear training and development collaboration making Axe Bat the exclusive swing partner of the Broncos’ newly ...

PEORIA, Ariz. — The great slugger Ted Williams once wrote in a book he authored about hitting that swinging a bat is just like wielding an ax. That philosophy was echoed for years by legendary Angels ...

So, what do Jay Buhner and Ted Williams have in common? Not career batting average, that’s for sure. But Buhner is down here, helping a Federal Way-based bat company, Baden Sports, promote a new type ...

When Dansby Swanson came off the disabled list Saturday and returned to the Braves’ lineup, he did so wielding a bat with an axe handle. Swanson is the latest major leaguer to switch to the ...

As simple as a baseball bat might seem to be, people are forever tinkering with its design. Bats have gotten shorter and lighter, handles have gotten thinner; some bats have a hollowed-out cup at the ...