NEW YORK — The Yankees’ record-setting performance on offense against the Brewers on Saturday featured a new bat design that’s so unusual it looks illegal at first glance. Play-by-play broadcast ...

For the MIT-educated physicist behind the torpedo bat, it's more about the talent of the players than their lumber at the plate. The torpedo model — a striking design in which wood is moved lower down ...

A St. Louis Cardinals fan favorite has used a design similar to the New York Yankees' controversial torpedo bat long before the newest invention was discovered. The Yankees have taken baseball by ...

The Chicago Cubs are a playoff-caliber team that's off to a slow start, but the New York Yankees' "torpedo" bats have taken center stage early this season. The general concept of the bat is to shift ...

Composite bats suitable for softball and less competitive baseball leagues have been around for years now. But adult baseball, with its high-hitting forces and tapered bat shape, has proven too tough ...

Back in 1995, a business colleague challenged me to design a high-performance composite softball bat. At the time, hollow aluminum bats were the most common, with major sports manufacturers offering a ...