At Jeremy LeBlanc’s 50-and-up amateur baseball league game in North Carolina last weekend, one topic dominated the dugout conversation: the “torpedo bats” that had suddenly taken over the sport.

New equipment isn’t introduced to Major League Baseball often, but the torpedo bat represents a change in the design of a piece of equipment that’s been part of the game from the start ...

DENVER (KDVR) — If you’re a baseball fan, you likely have spent the last week hearing a lot about the “torpedo bat” the New York Yankees recently debuted to much success. So what is it ...

But in the short time since Yankees play-by-play man Michael Kay pointed out the team’s new, misshapen sticks on live TV, Torpedo Bat Mania has consumed the baseball world. Clubhouses ...

A Hopkinsville woman was reportedly assaulted with a baseball bat during a fight on South Main Street Tuesday night. Hopkinsville Police say the woman was hit in the head with an aluminum baseball bat ...

But a new innovation in bat design is changing the game so far this Major League Baseball season, providing offensive players with an edge in an increasingly difficult sport. The new design is the ...

Plus he just had to take some cuts with baseball’s latest fad and see for himself if there really was some wizardry in the wallop off a torpedo bat. Ed Costantini, of Newtown Square, picked up ...

TODAY anchor Craig Melvin shared a glimpse of his "weekend of firsts" with wife Lindsay Czarniak and their kids ...

A torpedo bat resembles something of an elongated bowling pin. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. The talk of baseball: Louisville Slugger shows how the torpedo bat came to ...

Let's dig in. Read: An MIT-educated professor, the Yankees and the bat that could be changing baseball The idea of the torpedo bat is to take a size format -- say, 34 inches and 32 ounces -- and ...

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) - A Rapid City man accused of beating two people with a baseball bat said he is not guilty at his arraignment Thursday. Joshua Stone, 24, is charged with attempted murder ...