The issue of juiced baseballs surfaces every couple years during the month of April due to a high rate of home runs hit. Ed Wolfstein / Icon SMI 756 / Ed Wolfstein / Icon SMI / Newscom Cheating in ...

rodbac and I were discussing this in the NFL thread, but in the interest of preventing a derail, I'm starting it up here.<BR><BR>The question: does corking a bat let a player hit the ball farther? For ...

The boost a slugger gets from a corked bat is highly overrated. In fact, experts on the physics of baseball say such bats reduce a hitter's power. ``You have a slightly lighter bat and you're going to ...

The bat of Houston Astros outfielder Taylor Trammell was confiscated by umpires Thursday night after the New York Yankees questioned if it was legal due to the discoloration around the label at the ...