Axe bats aren’t ubiquitous by any means ... It’s not just knobs and handles and barrels that have been adjusted over the years. Baseball bats have been made out of hickory — a dense ...

The torpedo is the talk of 2025, but bat experiments have changed baseball and created controversy for 150 years.

How bat designers can play a role The torpedo bats were just one of the many innovations made to the bat in recent years. There was the hockey puck at the bottom and the axe-handle bats.