These bats make intricate tents out of leaves

A team of National Geographic Explorers is studying how these bats developed their architectural expertise—while cataloguing the various styles of tents they make.
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Inside the process of making an MLB star's torpedo bat

A FaceTime call came in last Monday morning to Freddie Vargas, CEO of Tater Baseball. On the other end: New York Mets outfielder Starling Marte. Like everyone around baseball, Marte had seen the New ...
The New York Times

‘Torpedomania’: MLB’s latest obsession leads to a wild week for bat makers

NEW YORK — Jared Smith and Kurt Ainsworth collectively have over 35 years of expertise in the bat-making industry. Yet nothing they’ve seen has sparked excitement quite like the unprecedented surge of ...
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How do 'torpedo bats' work? We asked baseball physicists to explain

If you were making a bowling pin on a lathe and suddenly decided to make a baseball bat instead, the result would look something like the "torpedo bat" that is the talk of MLB's new season. After some ...