From pencil bats to Scooby spikes, Players’ Weekend shows a different side of MLB. By The Athletic MLB Staff. Aug. 16, 2024 Updated Aug. 18, 2024.

Jeffers has been using a No. 2 pencil bat, and he homered with it for the second time in the first inning of Sunday's game against the Rangers.

Everyone with the same No. 2 Pencil bat. Playing a day game against the Cubs on Friday, Blue Jays utilityman Ernie Clement got first dibs on the No. 2 Pencil bat that was designed for this weekend ...

The “Pencil Bat” is Tatem’s favorite creation. The idea for it came from his son, who was 12 at the time. “He’s like, ‘you should make a bat look like a pencil,’” Tatem said.

The torpedo is the talk of 2025, but bat experiments have changed baseball and created controversy for 150 years. ... including the popular pencil bats, ...

Bruce Tatum, an in-house artist known as “The Bat King,” calls his memorable designs such as the No. 2 pencil and crayon bats notably used in the Little League Classic “swingable art.” ...

Sliding mitts, crazy-colored batting gloves, arm sleeves, pencil bats, Terminator sunglasses—the staid summer game is undergoing a style revolution.

New York Mets outfielder Harrison Bader's bat sports an uncanny resemblance to a pink bat. Meanwhile, the Toronto Blue Jays' Ernie Clement used a No. 2 pencil bat to get a pair of hits against the ...

Pick up a ball, pick up a pencil — have fun. Here’s to the poetry of the game: the way that baseball’s lyricism has us stretching, soaring, diving, sliding, ...

Jeffers has been using a No. 2 pencil bat, and he homered with it for the second time in the first inning of Sunday's game against the Rangers.