The crack of the baseball bat is back. For years, the Rhode Island teams in the American Legion Baseball league - the oldest nationwide youth program - played with aluminum bats that make the ...

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 ...

Last week's Question of the Week asked whether metal bats should be banned from organized youth baseball. The response was huge, with more than four out of five favoring a ban. Among 1,667 responses — ...

Attend any area high school baseball game this spring and it's a sound you'll hear over and over again. The sound of a baseball hitting an aluminum bat and soaring into the outfield or being driven ...

Late this summer, as a high school baseball fan, I was very interested in two big finals of national high school baseball tournaments in Korea and Japan, respectively. One was the final of the Koshien ...