If you were making a bowling pin on a lathe and suddenly decided to make a baseball bat instead, the result would look something like the "torpedo bat" that is the talk of MLB's new season. After some ...

In his playing days, Eric Gagne’s objective was simple. “My job was to break bats,” the former Dodgers closer joked with a laugh. Which makes his current occupation, as chief executive of Quebec-based ...

They look like baseball bats morphing into bowling pins, their ends flaring into an aggressive bulge that suddenly tapers. So how do they work? If you were making a bowling pin on a lathe and suddenly ...