Max Zitomer is used to receiving a lot of phone calls this time of the year as the spring baseball and softball season gets underway.
But the owner and founder of Closeout Bats, a popular family-owned baseball and softball equipment shop in Westwood, said his phone has been ringing off the hook over the few days with callers inquiring about the latest craze: “torpedo” bats.
“It’s been more real the last couple of days and since last weekend when the Yankees hit all those home runs,” said Zitomer, who opened his business in 1999. “We’ve carried a similar style bat for a while, but it wasn’t as popular and it wasn’t called a torpedo bat until recently.