From Billet To Bat: How Wooden Bats Used in Mickey Mantle Classic Are Made

If you've been following along with the Mickey Mantle Classic baseball tournament, you might have noticed the athletes using ...

Innovative Bat Boxes May Be a Lifeline for One of America’s Rarest Bats

Florida’s bonneted bats are one of the rarest bats in the U.S. Sadly, they are in danger of extinction, with only around ...
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NY Yankees' infamous torpedo is the same as regular bat, says science

During Major League Baseball's (MLB) opening season in 2025, the New York Yankees hit a team-record nine home runs in a ...
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Lab tests find Yankees' torpedo bat matches standard bat for power

The New York Yankees took the baseball world by storm with the newly designed torpedo bat last year, but the revolutionary ...

‘Wood is wood’: WSU research finds Yankees’ viral ‘torpedo’ bats perform the same as traditional bats

Scientists took their best swing at the torpedo bat design, which relies on a slightly different shape in which wood is ...
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Can a Bat Catch Prey on a Mirror? A Bat’s Expert Foraging Skills Revealed Using a Robot

Common big-eared bat (Micronycteris microtis) approaching a katydid resting on a leaf. Credit: Inga Geipel, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Co-author Inga Geipel, a research associate at STRI, ...
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Meet The Bumblebee Bat: The World's Smallest Bat Is The Last Of Its Kind

Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work covers anything from archaeology and the environment to technology and culture. Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work ...