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The Olean Senior Center, 112 N. Barry St., in the John J. Ash Community Building, announces its schedule for the week of April 21.
Ash will mark Flying Lotus's first major theatrical ... The latest from director Barry Levinson's The Alto Knights puts Robert De Niro in duel mobster roles as Vito Genovese and Frank Costello ...
For his first day of work in June 1999, Scott Smith arrived at the makeshift bat factory, a three-level brick corner house in ...
The torpedo is the talk of 2025, but bat experiments have changed baseball and created controversy for 150 years.
I’m just playing baseball.” That the Yankees had a historically great game, and that some players were using funny-looking ...
A professional hitter would turn an ash bat into a broom ... “Things were taking off like rocket fuel,” Smith says. And then Barry Bonds bought in. At their peak, they produced 15,000 bats ...
Barry Bonds hit 73 home runs in 2001 ... When Bonds set that record, he swung bats made out of maple, not ash. ESPN wrote about this at the time. Bonds said then, "I tried it and I liked it.
Torpedo bats are just the latest innovation in the design of baseball bats, some of which stuck, and others which ... did not ...
The New York Yankees quietly brought a physics experiment to the plate. Then came the home-run barrage.
Two big questions about MLB’s ‘torpedo’ bats. Similar to how Hemingway described bankruptcy in “The Sun Also Rises,” ...