An curved arrow pointing right. Xylo Bats is a company in Texas crafting custom wooden baseball bats. Owner Leland Wetzel made his first bat in 2012, and now the company produces over 1,000 bats a ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. A metro Detroit-based custom baseball equipment maker has ...

You know you’ve reached the big leagues when Yasiel Puig licks your bat. “He used them in the (2018) World Series and got an RBI hit, and that was a watershed moment for us,” says Cody Silveria, the ...

Tom Gandolph grew up at the baseball field. At a young age, he was introduced to the sport through his father, Dave Gandolph, who has coached for 50 seasons at various schools in Central Indiana. His ...

FOUNTAIN INN — Longtime baseball lover and player Dan Wilson joined an adult league in 2015 and struggled to find the right bat. The wooden ones he bought off the shelf at big-box stores seemed to ...

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RIVERTON, Utah — A Salt Lake County business is swinging for the fences. American Batsmith started producing wooden baseball bats in 2018. Since then, the business has grown and now ships thousands of ...

bats—it sold out within two days—was a pink-based Atlas colorway. That design came directly from what Slugger saw as a trend from customers toying with online customization. “The pink bat was the ...

The Bronx Bombers now have torpedoes in their arsenal. The wood of the bat is shifted from the barrel towards the batter’s hands to create a custom sweet spot where contact is most frequently made.