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Attack
We created revolutionary new connection technology - named T2 - to strengthen then link between the barrel and the handle of the Attack bat. The handle in T2 bats is strighter than those in traditional handles, and wrapper in a thick rubber ring inside the barrel to give it a trampoline like effect, while dramatically decreasing vibration. This results in a better feeling bat that’s not only sturdier, but feels better with every swing. Our Attack Series are BBCOR-certified, but swing like BESR.
Exo
The innovative Exogrid® delivers power and performance through stiffness and strength. The combination of one-piece construction and carbon composite inserts for handle stiffness has made this bat a choice of champions throughout the country.
Omaha
The championship-proven Omaha® is back and better than ever. The Omaha® gets its strength from its ST+20 alloy, the strongest alloy available in a bat today. And it meets all high school and college BBCOR standards.
Catalyst
- C1C composite design
- Louisville Slugger® Pro Cup® end cap
- Synthetic grip, 7/8" tapered handle
Wood
From the earliest days of the game, Louisville Slugger has always employed the most powerful technology available in the bat business. Back in the days of Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth, that meant having the most skilled craftsmen at the lathe, handcrafting bats to the most demanding specifications of the world’s most demanding players. Today, it means applying the latest aerospace technology to bat making, delivering high-tech aluminum, hybrid and composite bats that give new meaning to the word “performance.”
125 Series
- Genuine steerhide leather for strength and durability.
- Oil-treated leather for a great feel and easier break-in.
- Slugger Touch finger linings wick away perspiration from the player's hand for control and comfort.
- Dye-through lacing for durability.
- Professional inspired patterns.
Omaha Pro
- High-end Avanlanche leather for substantial, yet soft feel.
- Bruise-gard™ padding offers added protection.
- Extra thick, dye-through lacing for additional durability.
- Full leather finger linings.
Omaha Select!
- Designed for players transitioning from youth baseball to a more competitive level
- Professional inspired patterns
- Lightweight, oil-treated cowhide for superior feel and fit
- Bruise-gard™ padding offers added protection
In many ways, the rich, -year history of the Louisville Slugger baseball bat began in the talented hands of 17-year-old John A. "Bud" Hillerich.
Bud's father, J. F. Hillerich, owned a growing woodworking shop in Louisville, Kentucky, in the 1880s when Bud began working for him.
Legend has it that Bud, who played baseball himself, slipped away from work one afternoon in 1884 to watch Louisville's major league team, the Louisville Eclipse. The team's star, Pete Browning, mired in a hitting slump, broke his bat.
Bud invited Browning over to his father's shop to make him a new one. With Browning at his side giving advice, Bud hand-crafted a new bat from a long slab of wood. Browning got three hits with it the next day.
Browning told his teammates, which began a surge of professional ball players to the Hillerich shop. Yet J. F. Hillerich had little interest in making bats; he saw the company future in stair railings, porch columns and swinging butter churns. For a brief time in the 1880s, he even turned away ball players.
Bud persisted; he saw the future in bats. His father, pleased with his son's enthusiasm, relented. The rest is baseball history.
In 1894, with Bud Hillerich taking over from his father, the name "Louisville Slugger" was registered with the U.S. Patent Office. In the early 1900s, the growing company pioneered a sports marketing concept by paying Hall of Fame hitter Honus Wagner to use his name on a bat-a practice continued with Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods and so many other professional athletes in virtually all sports today. By 1923, Louisville Slugger was selling more bats than any other bat maker in the country. Baseball was the nation's most popular sport, and legends like Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb and Lou Gehrig all swung Louisville Sluggers.
Some years have passed since Bud Hillerich crafted that very first bat for Pete Browning. During that time, Louisville Slugger has sold more than 100,000,000 bats, making it without question the most popular bat brand in baseball history. Louisville Slugger continues to dominate the game in both wood and aluminum bat categories. 60% of all Major League players currently use Louisville Slugger. And in the past decade, seven national college baseball champions hammered their way to the top with Louisville Slugger TPX bats.
In recent years, Louisville Slugger has gone far beyond bats, providing performance technology in the form of fielding and batting gloves, helmets, catchers' gear, equipment bags, training aids and accessories. In addition to its on-field performance products, Louisville Slugger offers personalized, miniature, commemorative and collectible bats.
So what would baseball be like if young Bud Hillerich had followed his father's urging and devoted his efforts to making swinging butter churns? We don't even want to think about it.
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