Ty Cobb once called his bat “a wondrous weapon,” and the sentiment has hardly diminished over the years. Players still treat their old hickory stick (to use a dated term; hickory hasn’t been used in ...

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 ...