The crack of a ball hitting off a wooden bat and echoing throughout a stadium is central to the ethos and mythology of baseball, the kind of sound that conjures images and memories of picturesque ...

Newly designed metal bats are keeping scores down in the College Baseball World Series now underway in Omaha, Neb. The new bats feature "sweet spots" that are smaller than they were previously in an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The crack of a baseball off a wooden bat is one of the most gratifying and distinct sounds in all of sports, a noise that has ...

Skill of the hitters was still the biggest factor in how fast the ball came off the bat.