Attend any area high school baseball game this spring and it's a sound you'll hear over and over again. The sound of a baseball hitting an aluminum bat and soaring into the outfield or being driven ...

FARGO - The first state high school league to switch exclusively to wood baseball bats is bringing aluminum back into the fold. The North Dakota High School Activities Association Board of Directors, ...

CITYWIDE — The familiar “ping” sound of a ball springing off an aluminum bat has long been associated with high school baseball. In Santa Monica and the rest of California, that sound may soon be a ...

OAK LAWN, Ill. (AP) — Bill Kalant never had a chance to get out of the way of the baseball that put him, as doctors told his father, “on the cliff of death.” The pitcher’s parents, sitting a few feet ...

Three serious head injuries to high school pitchers the past two seasons was enough to catch the attention of the Illinois High School Association. Now, they’re doing something about it. What? They’re ...

Aluminum bats were seen as a cost-saving alternative to wood when they were introduced at the college level in 1974, and the extra offense they produced added excitement to the games. Advances in ...

You may recall the discussion we had some months back about the supposed dangers of aluminum bats. Well, this morning we received a comment from a reader in New York who wanted to say a few things on ...

At issue is whether aluminum bats have made baseball unnecessarily dangerous. On one side are those who say baseballs fly off these bats much faster than they do wood bats and have led to severe ...