CEDARBURG, Wis. — Baseball season may be over, but if you listen closely you can still hear the crack of the bat. Depending on the wood you're using, that sound will be very different, with bats ...

Library of Congress. In just a few years, the crack of the bat at the baseball park might be just that—the bat cracking to pieces. That’s because bats made of maple wood have a tendency to ...

The Rawlings Bat Factory in Dolgeville, New York, Schumer’s home state, historically has turned out thousands of baseball bats made of ash wood, bats favored by many professional players.

The major league baseball season gets underway this weekend. That's one bit of news. Another less happy thing is that an invasive bug called the emerald ash borer is creeping ever closer to the ...

Rawlings baseball bats have a big place in sports history. But now the ash trees used to make those iconic bats are threatened by an invasive beetle that's spreading in forests across the Northeast.

Maple, Ash Baseball Bats May Strike Out The talk turns to baseball bats — including whether maple bats should be benched, and how a tiny bug may throw the bat-making industry a curve ball.