In this Feb. 8, 2018, photo, Brent Weidenbach, director of product management for Axe Bat, poses for a photo holding one of his company's baseball bats in the batting cage at the company's warehouse ...

Red Sox fans may need to get a better grip on reality this season, and slugger Adrian Gonzalez, who just signed a $154 million, seven-year deal with the team, could be one step ahead of them with the ...

The reach of the Boston Red Sox is quite extensive. So much so that a comment on bat grips from Lizard Skins shows how far Red Sox Nation stretches. Some BoSox Injection readers are aware that I’m ...

You may have noticed a trend of major-league players using brightly colored bat grips in recent seasons. Bats that were once adorned only by pine tar buildup and cleat marks were now wrapped with a ...

Baseball’s version of laying on hands deals more with palm and finger placement on the bat than healing the afflicted. In any case, batters, too, hope for miracles. Lehigh Valley IronPigs middle ...

The Louisville Slugger was the house bat of baseball for more than 100 years, as iconic a piece of hardware as there is in the history of the game. It has been whipped through the strike zone by Ty ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... It was around this time last year that foreign substances, the stuff pitchers use to make baseballs spin enough to achieve celestial orbit, took center stage ...

RENTON, Wash. (AP) - Players have been altering bats for decades in a bid to improve their grip - adding pine-tar or some specialized grip tape, maybe shaving the handle slightly to make it thinner.