Someone's going to die at a baseball stadium soon. Might be a player. Could be an umpire. Possibly even a fan. It almost was a coach. The scar on Don Long's left cheek still puffs around the edges, ...

Less than a week after Major League Baseball announced new regulations in December concerning maple-wood bat production, a bat manufacturer named Romeo Filip sent an email to the owners and operators ...

Many maple bats will be banned in the minor leagues this season, part of Major League Baseball's push to stop shattered shards of wood from flying dangerously through the air. New regulations will ...

Regulations to be put in place to prevent shattered pieces of wood flying through the air. NEW YORK — Many maple bats will be banned in the minor leagues this season, part of Major League Baseball’s ...

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, Ontario. Sam Holman handed Smith an order form: six bats, all for ...

MaxBat, the company in Brooten that manufactures baseball bats, many that are used by major league players, has a slogan that reads "Our maple kicks ash". But some people in baseball are now trying to ...

MENARDS. BASEBALL SEASON MAY BE OVER, BUT IF YOU LISTEN CLOSELY, YOU CAN STILL HEAR THE CRACK OF THE BAT AND DEPENDING ON THE WOOD YOU’RE USING THAT SOUND IS GOING TO BE VERY DIFFERENT WITH BATS LIKE ...