Torpedo bats drew attention over the weekend when the New York Yankees hit a team-record nine homers in one game.

Using a strikingly different model in which wood is moved lower down the barrel after the label and shapes the end a little like a bowling pin, the torpedo bat has become baseball’s latest ...

In the late 1990s, an Ottawa man changed bat technology with the creation of maple bats. Soon, almost every major leaguer ...

Louisville Slugger Torpedo bats being painted. And sales of souvenir bats quadrupled in 2016 when the Chicago Cubs broke a 107-year-old World Series drought, Hillerich said. Yet the demand curve ...

Louisville Slugger Torpedo bats being painted. (Louisville Slugger) And sales of souvenir bats quadrupled in 2016 when the Chicago Cubs broke a 107-year-old World Series drought, Hillerich said. Yet ...

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 ...

“It’s been very busy,” said Brian Hillerich at Louisville Slugger. “Lots of players calling up wanting the torpedo bats.” Those players include Cincinnati Reds star, Elly De La Cruz. The first night ...