Pitchers used pine tar for a better grip on pitches, but the fad grew to the point Major League Baseball cracked down on foreign substances in 2021. Pitchers were becoming too dominant with the ...

We created homemade "illegal substances" like the ones pitchers use—pine tar, spider tack, sunscreen-mix, you name it—and tried to fool a real umpire.

Tucked into the valleys of the Blue Ridge Mountains, a mine in Spruce Pine, N.C. closed for several weeks following the ...

On Maundy Thursday, it is customary in Bulgaria to dye Easter eggs, starting with the most important one—the first egg must always be painted red. This egg ...

“Let them use whatever bat they want. Let’s just allow pitchers to use whatever hitters have in the on deck circle,” Strahm posted on X. “And not check us like we are criminals every time ...

Some Yankees players used a new bat during the second game in the Major League Baseball series against the Milwaukee Brewers.

Yes, the Yankees have a literal genius MIT Physicist, Lenny (who is the man), on payroll. He invented the “Torpedo” barrel. It brings more wood - and mass - to where you most often make contact as a ...

Brett’s explosion of anger during the 1983 “Pine Tar Incident” is Exhibit A of ... I had a Wilson bag and Wilson clubs because I used a Wilson baseball glove. … They were laughing at ...

The reaction across MLB to the design of the New York Yankees' new 'torpedo' bats after the Bronx Bombers belted 13 home runs in two games was swift.