Those blasts all came from bats made by Adirondack, a Dolgeville company purchased in the 1970s by Rawlings, the sporting goods giant. Before aluminum bats, before machines that can do with ...

This is the largest of all Adirondack bats. The soft, silky fur is long, longest on the neck where it forms a ruff. In color, the fur is dark mahogany to yellowish brown. The short, rounded ears are ...

Now the insect threatens groves of white ash in the southern Adirondacks and the Mohawk Valley, which produce some of the most iconic baseball bats in the country. A humble plant with a lot of ...