The bat punctured his chest. It flew through the air and punctured the chest of the Chicago Cubs’ Tyler Colvin over 50 feet away from home plate. That’s a really big splinter. Colvin, who is currently ...

NEW YORK — Many maple bats will be banned in the minor leagues this season, part of Major League Baseball's push to stop shattered shards of wood from flying dangerously through the air. New ...

The first maple bat was made on a bar bet in 1996. An old scout named Bill McKenzie was lamenting the frequency with which bats made of ash wood were breaking, and he wondered if his friend and ...

For his first day of work in June 1999, Scott Smith arrived at the makeshift bat factory, a three-level brick corner house in Ottawa, Ontario. Sam Holman handed Smith an order form: six bats, all for ...

Is enough ash wood available for baseball to ban maple bats? A prominent bat manufacturer says yes. Baseball says no. The issue, like so much else with the controversy over maple bats, is not as ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. | Plate umpire Brian O'Nora was hit in the head by a shattered piece of Miguel Olivo's broken maple bat Tuesday night, sending blood streaming down his face and forcing him out of a ...

Philadelphia quarterback Kevin Kolb stayed on the sideline Sunday, watching as Michael Vick propelled the Eagles to victory over Detroit. Team officials were proceeding cautiously in the wake of ...