Joey Bishop knows he was lucky. He reminds himself every day, while preparing for his new job in construction or during playtime with his 3-year-old daughter. What Bishop remembers about April 18, ...

Old Hickory, long known for successful wood-bat-making endeavors in MLB, took a unique approach to their reentry into the BBCOR bat market with the A1 and C2 models. “We set out to create our own ...

Baseball has long been a sport that loves its acronyms, such as ERA and RBI. But it's BBCOR and BESR that are having a noteworthy offensive impact on the high school game this spring. In Class 6A, run ...

Louisville Slugger wants to take the sting out of BBCOR bats, making vibration technology the focal point of updates to its 2019 lineup of bats, released this August. Tom Burns, senior product manager ...

Remember when a sure sign of spring was the crack of a bat? A wooden bat, that is? You might start hearing that sound again - or at least something closer to it than the tinny ping we've grown ...

Aiming for safer play and shorter games, college baseball for the 2011 season adopted the most significant new bat standards in 12 years. The game was altered with dramatic changes in almost every ...

A bill that proposed a one-year moratorium on metal and composite bats in California high schools has been withdrawn after the CIF, the state's governing body for high school sports, agreed to adopt ...

In case you have not noticed, the bats in high school baseball are not what they used to be. In 2011, a rule change prohibited any and all aluminum bats that did not have a "BBCOR" stamp on it. Why is ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — University of Georgia standout Charlie Condon cannot be stopped. The Georgia baseball star set a new NCAA record on Thursday night with his 34th home run of the season, which now ...