Louisville Slugger Factory

The kids and I took the chance in Louisville to visit a few sites. Poor Amy sat in the car studying. We when to the Louisville Slugger Factory. It's not in the same place it was 22 years ago, it was across the river in Indiana then. Now it's in the heart of downtown 800 West Main Street. It was quite a bit of fun. We watched a movie about baseball for 15 minutes and then off on the tour we went.

Here are the kids standing in front of the Worlds Largest Baseball Bat. This this is about 5 stories tall. It's hard to get a picture of it.
Lexy took some swings in the little kids batting cages. She had a ton of fun trying the different bats. She spent about 15 minutes trying to hit the bulls-eye on the wall.
Isaac did the big boy batting cages. He tried his hand at the 40MPH fast balls. Then he tried the softball side, got some confidence and went back to the fast balls. He hit about 5 out of 10 on that last round.
This didn't mean much to the kids but they are holding a game used Micky Mantle baseball bat. The fellow at the photo station said that is was worth $20k. Pretty cool.
This is Lexy with the same Mickey Mantle bat.

We did go on the factory tour where they were making bats. They didn't allow is to take pictures. We saw bats being made on a latte, on a Hillerich latte, and a CandC machine. We got to see how the bats were cut, turned, sanded, branded, painted and finished. It was fun. In the end we all three walked out with a mini bat.

And, something else pretty cool happened in the Louisville Slugger Factory, it's a pretty cool surprise for another post.