Unlike modern tennis or badminton racquets, the cricket bat is still strictly made of wood. Other tweaks though allow those ...

Watch a baseball game today, and you are likely to see it. Pay close attention. Many players come to bat with a Lizard Skins bat grip wrapped around the handle of their trade’s most important tool.

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.

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.

Over a year in research and development, the UV Series color-changing wood bats still use professional-grade maple and comes in the SSK JB9, SSK RC22 and SSK Thor’s Hammer youth and adult models.

"You know, where they want the weight in the bat, barrel profiles, how they want the handles to feel, grip thickness, all that kind of stuff,” Cmelik said.

Brewers outfield prospect Trent Grisham got his career back on track by going back to an unusual grip on the bat that always worked for him.

A bat has been left traumatized after surviving the deadly grip of a python during an hour-long battle in eastern Australia. Snake Catchers Brisbane & Gold Coast and wildlife charity Bat ...

Although bats used by major leaguers are still manufactured at the company’s revered home in downtown Louisville, Ky., it started to outsource work to China in 2006, and thousands of softball ...

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.

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 ...