CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – Grip substances on baseball bats and poor sportsmanship game forfeit rules will be revised in the next high school baseball season. In a first for MLB, pitch-clock violation ...

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.

The curiosity of it all is that for as much the baseball bat itself has changed, the rules presiding over those changes have changed very little. Here are the bat regulations laid out during a ...