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 ...

Ben Strand loves the sound of the ping when a baseball connects with a bat. Chad Omdahl prefers the crack of the bat. Metal or wood? North Dakota high school baseball is in its second season of ...

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 ...