"I'm proud that our collective 'wood grain trust' has made recommendations resulting in a significant drop in shattered bats, making the game safer for players as well as for fans." "These results ...

The research began in 2008, when wood experts at the federal lab examined what caused the big league maple bats to shatter. That analysis revealed that the more straight the grain on the bat ...

Whereas traditional bats are shaped from one piece of wood and are therefore comprised of wide grain near the label, the Radial Bat's design uses 12 wedges of wood that are joined together at ...

did massive research about the best wood grain for bats before launching Rock Bats in 2002. He's been running the company full time since 2007. While working as a wood consultant for the Brewers ...

Let’s look back at the bats that have existed in MLB ... but because of the way the wood was grained — it’s slope-grain —, it also split into dangerous shards when they broke, to the ...