Major League Baseball is testing a new iteration of an “enhanced-grip” baseball in the Double-A Southern League this season, which starts Friday. A similar test was called off early last year after it ...

Lizard Skins is the new white labeling partner for the University of Maryland startup founded by a football player and chemical engineers. The deal is designed to put the company’s grip-enhancing gel ...

A GRIP ON SPORTS • Baseball’s opening day is coming. The Yankees and the Red Sox – who else? – kick the season off Thursday morning. And once again we start to wonder what the heck has happened to ...

The longest-lasting relationship in baseball is between the pitcher and the baseball. From Little League to retirement, most Major League pitchers have a baseball as an extension of his body. He doesn ...

For the last year, Major League Baseball has aggressively tried to cut down on pitchers using illegal substances to improve their grip on baseballs. New York Mets manager Buck Showalter seems to ...

The Astros’ Hunter Brown impressed in his major league debut on Sept. 5, going six scoreless innings against the Rangers in front of a home crowd. Brown sat 95-97 mph on his fastball, touching 98 mph, ...

Yes, this commercial is about a year old and was designed to get people excited about a Mariners team that would win an AL-worst 61 games in 2008. Still, watching it again raised my apartment's ...

In this Feb. 8, 2018, photo, Brent Weidenbach, director of product management for Axe Bat, poses for a photo holding one of his company's baseball bats in the batting cage at the company's warehouse ...