Safety gear is an important aspect of playing any sport, including baseball. Perhaps the most important piece of gear for baseball players is the helmet. A batter wears the hard, plastic baseball ...

New York Mets player David Wright was hit last month in the head by a 94 mph fastball, and suffered a concussion. This week, he began wearing — and quickly discarded — a helmet that offers more ...

This is Highly Recommend, a column dedicated to our very opinionated editors’ favorite things to eat, drink, and buy. I’m squeezing this story into the tail-end of baseball season, the playoffs. I’m ...

The helmets of the every team in the 2024 Major League Baseball playoffs will have a new look. For the first time in the postseason, there will be advertising on the helmets of each team, MLB ...

Boston fans may notice that Red Sox catcher David Ross is kicking it “old school” this year. After wearing a hockey-style goalie helmet behind the plate last season, Ross switched to the traditional ...

Two Liberty High graduates earned a U.S. patent on a honeycomb helmet design that would absorb impact and reduce concussions among baseball players. Joseph Barlow and Sid Tekumalla, class of 2023, ...