Baseball bat manufacturers had little evidence to suggest a spike in sales was just around the corner when Major League Baseball’s newest season opened last week. It had been four years since ...

Major League Baseball commissioner Rob ... called "torpedo bat," a bowling-pin shaped bat the popularity of which has coincided with a very modest spike in the league home-run rate relative ...

"They're absolutely good for baseball," Manfred said in a Q&A ... bat maker of MLB and has seen sales and interest spike in the torpedo bats. Manfred highlighted that the bat has been used for ...