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Baseball Game Changer: the Louisville Slugger

by Thursday, May 15, 2014

Source: HittingWorld The famous Louisville Slugger was invented by seventeen-year-old Bud Hillerich, whose father owned a woodworking shop in Louisville, Kentucky in the 1880s. Bud went to watch the local major league baseball team, the Louisville Eclipse. When lead player Pete Browning broke his bat during the game, Bud invited him back to his father’s wood shop to ...