The Rawlings Bat Factory in Dolgeville, New York, Schumer’s home state, historically has turned out thousands of baseball bats made of ash wood, bats favored by many professional players.

Cape Cod League baseball players and managers prefer wood bats over aluminum bats, mirroring professional baseball. Wood bats ...

For the 2025 season, at least three active MVP winners — Ronald Acuna Jr., Cody Bellinger and Christian Yelich — are swinging Slugger bats, Redman said. Louisville natives Jo Adell, Will Smith and ...

Arkansas right-hander Gage Wood threw the third no-hitter in MCWS history, the first since 1960, against Murray State to keep ...

What. A. Performance. Gage Wood tossed the third no-hitter in College World Series history to keep the Arkansas baseball ...

Gage Wood missed 54 games this year with a shoulder injury. This makes his 19-strikeout no-hitter at the College World Series ...

Ash used to be the go-to wood for bats, until the emerald ash borer struck in the early 2000s, accelerating baseball's rapid shift to maple (which was used by Barry Bonds in his historic home run ...

The torpedo is the talk of 2025, but bat experiments have changed baseball and created controversy for 150 years. The torpedo is the talk of 2025, ...

The torpedo is the talk of 2025, but bat experiments have changed baseball and created controversy for 150 years. ... maple bats raced past ash as the wood of choice in the big league.

Yes, after at least a century’s worth of baseball bats that all looked more or less the same—“it must be made of wood, and may be of any length to suit the striker,” reads a set of rules ...

Baseball bats have been made out of hickory — a dense, heavy wood that helps explain why the bats sluggers used in the earlier days of the game weighed as much as Dustin Pedroia did — and out ...

The creation of MLB-quality baseball bats involves a meticulous and highly skilled process. It begins with selecting the finest wood, often ash or maple, for its durability and performance.