The BriefA 35-year-old man from Whitehall was killed after a road rage incident escalated in Allentown Sunday.Officials have ...

A driver fatally shot another driver who attacked his vehicle with a baseball bat early Sunday morning in downtown Allentown, authorities said.

Law enforcement officials in Lehigh County are investigating after, they said, a road rage incident in Center City Allentown ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Police have arrested three juveniles and an 18-year-old for their alleged involvement in an armed carjacking ...

Wooden bats were once common in college baseball, but in 1974, as a way to increase offense and address cost concerns, a widespread switch to metal bats was made.

Wooden bats were once common in college baseball, but in 1974, as a way to increase offense and address cost concerns, a widespread switch to metal bats was made.

Then the NCAA made a change in its standard for rating its metal bats, one that makes the new bats react more like wood. The "ping" sound to the metal bat is gone and so is the pop. With a change ...

Metal bats are hollow, while wood bats are solid. When a ball hits a wood bat, the bat barrel compresses by as much as 75 percent, such that internal friction forces decrease the initial energy by ...

In cricket, a metal bat was famously used by one player in one test match in Perth in 1979, and shortly thereafter the laws were changed to specify that the bat had to be made of wood. Modern bats ...

Metal bats were adopted in amateur baseball leagues back in the 1970s in part because wood bats break and can be costly over time. Soon players noticed the hollow metal bats conferred an advantage ...