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The New York Times |
“I’ve gotten more messages about the torpedo bat — I’ve been doing this for over 20 years now — than I have on anything we have ever done in the history of our company,” said Ainsworth, the CEO and c...
Yahoo! Sports |
The oddly-shaped bats have become one of the biggest baseball stories of the first week of the season, taking the internet by storm after fans noticed them in use by the New York Yankees on a day whe...
Yahoo! Sports |
Topps released a NOW card featuring Jazz Chisholm Jr. holding a torpedo bat, the new physicist-designed lumber taking over the MLB debate scene to start 2025.

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