"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 ...

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 ...

For his first day of work in June 1999, Scott Smith arrived at the makeshift bat factory, a three-level brick corner house in Ottawa, Ontario. Sam Holman handed Smith an order form: six bats ...