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.

An Old Hickory bat leans knob-up against the wall, its black barrel tapering up into a bare, pale, wooden grip. It's an ordinary-looking baseball bat -- until the lime-green sensor ensconced in ...

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.

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 ...