The first maple bat was made on a bar bet in 1996. An old scout named Bill McKenzie was lamenting the frequency with which bats made of ash wood were breaking, and he wondered if his friend and ...

A Carleton Place company that produces wooden bats for Major League Baseball players says the weak Canadian dollar is giving it a competitive edge. The majority of the 22,000 maple bats produced ...

Both Stanton and Ozuna use Sam Bats that are similar — Stanton’s “G27” has a deeper cup than Ozuna’s 2017 model “MO13” — and both became fond of Sam Bats after borrowing one from the hitter who made ...

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 ...

Result: initial failure to launch. Pederson, a self-described bat lover, got a few bats on Friday from the Sam Bat and Tucci companies, gave them a whirl in batting practice and took one into the game ...

2006-08-09 04:00:00 PDT Phoenix-- When Barry Bonds hits a home run, he retires the bat and places it in his memorabilia collection. That has created a problem for Bonds: He is running out of this year ...