Torpedo bats are all the rage in Major League Baseball these days, but one bat expert set the record straight on an idea that has been floating around since their introduction.. Keenan Long of ...

Babe Ruth used this bat to hit his first home run in Yankee Stadium in 1923; it's seen here in 2004 at Sotheby's in New York. Bat design hasn't changed much in more than 100 years, other than ...

If you were making a bowling pin on a lathe and suddenly decided to make a baseball bat instead, the result would look something like the "torpedo bat" that is the talk of MLB's new season.

Each team's time at bat is a half-inning. Line Drive: A ball which is batted directly to a fielder without touching the ground. Offense: The team currently at bat.

The New York Yankees’ 20-9 win against the Milwaukee Brewers last Saturday has put the spotlight on the odd, bowling-pin-shaped “torpedo bat” that many of the team’s players were swinging.

“If bat speed alone was an absolute measure of success, then the top bat speeds would all be the top hitters in baseball,” Doug Latta of popular training facility The Ball Yard said.