The crack of a baseball off a wooden bat is one of the most gratifying and distinct sounds in all of sports, a noise that has helped provide the soundtrack of idyllic summer days and nights for more ...

GUNNAR Sandberg, a 16-year-old California high school pitcher, was hospitalized in critical condition after being struck in the head March 11 by a 100 mph line drive off a metal baseball bat. His ...

The crack of a ball hitting off a wooden bat and echoing throughout a stadium is central to the ethos and mythology of baseball, the kind of sound that conjures images and memories of picturesque ...

FOREST GROVE -- The fractured skull that Pacific University pitcher Tyler Fransen suffered when a comebacker struck him behind the right ear on March 20 serves as another case in the decades-old ...