Louisville Slugger has been synonymous with Major League Baseball for more than 100 years, but now Marucci Sports, a company founded in 2002, has replaced it as MLB’s official bat. “I created (Marucci) in my backyard,

So, what is a torpedo bat? A typical wooden baseball bat only gets wider from the handle to the barrel, while a torpedo bat gets wider toward the center of the barrel then tapers. The end shape resembles that of a bowling pin or torpedo.

In its 141-year history, Louisville Slugger has made more than 4,000 different bat models. And now, a bat that kind of looks like swinging a bowling pin.