You’ve been hearing all about torpedo bats of late, and with good reason. New equipment isn’t introduced to Major League Baseball often, but the torpedo bat represents a change in the design ...

The history of bats: How MLB lumber has changed, from corking and axe handles all the way to torpedo bats While torpedo bats have caused a stir this season, the latest trend is far from the first ...

NFL fans commemorate their team’s Super Bowl victories in all sorts of ways, but Mike Trout might be the first to do it on a bat knob. The South Jersey native who is often seen in his end-zone ...

Elly De La Cruz added some flair to his latest feat during his show-stopping rookie season. The electric Cincinnati rookie third baseman had the knob handle of his bat checked by umpires during ...

Umpire Quinn Wolcott, left, speaks with Cincinnati Reds' Elly De La Cruz and manager David Bell about a knob on De La Cruz's bat handle in the second inning of a baseball game against the ...

In recent years, we’ve seen several changes to bat handles, including the axe handle popularized by Mookie Betts, the hockey puck knob/counterweight handle and even some players, like Mets ...

The knob is a critical component of any wooden bat. A knob is the disc shape at the very bottom of a bat that ensures the bat does not slip out of the hand when swung.

The current design of the bats' handle, however, ending with a circular, perfectly symmetrical knob, dates back over 150 years. Leinert thinks he's improved on that with his Axe Bat, which has a ...

It reminded him a bit of the puck knob fad, when some players tried a counterweight at the handle of the bat in an effort to produce more bat speed.