MaxBat, the company in Brooten that manufactures baseball bats, many that are used by major league players, has a slogan that reads "Our maple kicks ash". But some people in baseball are now trying to ...

For his first day of work in June 1999, Scott Smith arrived at the makeshift bat factory, a three-level brick corner house in Ottawa, Ontario. Sam Holman handed Smith an order form: six bats, all for ...