The first maple bat was made on a bar bet in 1996. An old scout named Bill McKenzie was lamenting the frequency with which bats made of ash wood were breaking, and he wondered if his friend and ...

For his first day of work in June 1999, Scott Smith arrived at the makeshift bat factory, a three-level brick corner house in Ottawa with a stop sign sprouting up from the tree-lawn shrubs. Sam Holman ...

For his first day of work in June 1999, Scott Smith arrived at the makeshift bat factory, a three-level brick corner house in Ottawa, Ontario. Sam Holman handed Smith an order form: six bats, all for ...

The timing was almost spooky. On Tuesday, officials from Major League Baseball and the Players Association met to discuss the safety of maple bats. The meeting was in response to maple bats shattering ...

The most prominent manufacturer of maple bats said Tuesday that baseball players and owners should ensure the quality of bats by paying roughly triple the price. Sam Holman, founder of the Canadian ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Like most of the cast of thousands at Dodger Stadium, the Pittsburgh Pirates’ hitting coach was watching the ball. As fate would have it, he should have been ...

Less than a week after Major League Baseball announced new regulations in December concerning maple-wood bat production, a bat manufacturer named Romeo Filip sent an email to the owners and operators ...