Joey Bishop knows he was lucky. He reminds himself every day, while preparing for his new job in construction or during playtime with his 3-year-old daughter. What Bishop remembers about April 18, ...

Hall of Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan once missed a start after being bitten by a coyote. Outfielder Vince Coleman missed the entire 1985 World Series after being rolled up in the tarp machine. Obviously ...

STARKVILLE -- The reviews are in for the new bats in college baseball, and they're not all positive. The NCAA Baseball Research Panel recommended the new BBCOR formula for colleges after studying an ...

Aiming for safer play and shorter games, college baseball for the 2011 season adopted the most significant new bat standards in 12 years. The game was altered with dramatic changes in almost every ...

Tracy Nichols is a stickler for details, but the breadth of basic skill sets the Trinity Catholic High School baseball team has worked on the past two weeks has expanded greatly, in terms of time ...

Old Hickory, long known for successful wood-bat-making endeavors in MLB, took a unique approach to their reentry into the BBCOR bat market with the A1 and C2 models. “We set out to create our own ...

Another baseball season is upon us and, while the rules for baseball bat usage are clear in college and high school, they become a little murky (or even difficult to understand) in Little League and ...

The general landscape of high school baseball is undergoing a considerable change this spring. The National Federation of State High School Association (NFHS) instituted mandatory use of the BBCOR ...

A bill that proposed a one-year moratorium on metal and composite bats in California high schools has been withdrawn after the CIF, the state's governing body for high school sports, agreed to adopt ...

In case you have not noticed, the bats in high school baseball are not what they used to be. In 2011, a rule change prohibited any and all aluminum bats that did not have a "BBCOR" stamp on it. Why is ...