the majors are the only place you'll find wooden bats these days. A whole generation is growing up with a preference for another type, beginning the steady decline of one of baseball's most iconic ...

There’s a certain romance to wooden baseball bats that goes away the second ... section of the now-defunct print magazine. Her love of graphics eventually led to her current job as a graphics ...

Baseball bats have gone through a few changes ... Stu Forster/Getty Images, FILE Because willow is a fairly soft wood, bats made out of willow must be "knocked in" before they are used.

The wooden bats Dave Gulick creates have made it to the palms of many baseball players. Little League batters have hit home runs with them and professional sluggers have been struck out swinging ...

If you were making a bowling pin on a lathe and suddenly decided to make a baseball bat instead ... president of PFS-TECO, a wood products company that inspects bats used in the MLB.