Bryce Harper's 2024 Topps Tier One 1/1 bat knob pays homage to Harambe, the beloved gorilla who sadly was euthanized when a 3-year old boy crawled under a fence and into his enclosure at a ...

Yankees’ Jazz Chisholm Jr.’s torpedo bat up close. Getty Images And it’s not the first reinvention of the baseball bat, as Marucci designed the “puck knob” just a few years ago.

The thing is, the torpedo design is not the first change to baseball bats. They didn’t just arrive on the scene in the 19th century looking like they do today — it took years and years, well ...

Baseball bats have been made out of hickory — a dense, heavy wood that helps explain why the bats sluggers used in the earlier days of the game weighed as much as Dustin Pedroia did — and out ...