Baseball season is officially underway making April the perfect time to plan a visit to the Louisville Slugger Museum. Located in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, the Museum offers a trip down memory lane for baseball fans as well as an opportunity to tour the bat factory. Here are our top 6 reasons to visit the Louisville Slugger Museum.
Learn How Bats Are Made
This was seriously the coolest part because this is actually where they make Louisville Slugger bats. Start your tour by learning about the forests in New York and Pennsylvania where they grow the wood for their bats. And then follow that wood straight through the factory.
See the wood go through the lathe and go from a long cylinder of wood until it resembles a bat. Watch it get the Louisville Slugger emblem get burnished into the smooth wood. Then watch them dip the finished bat.
Celebrate the Greats
Throughout the museum there are plaques and displays celebrating the great players, teams and stadiums. Outside of the museum there are a series of home plates honoring baseballs greatest of all time. Grab your bat and take the plate of one of the greats!
See MLB Player’s Bats
There is a whole section of the factory that’s dedicated to the bats they’ve made for MLB players and teams. Search for your favorite team and see which player uses a Louisville Slugger!
Swing the Bat of Your Favorite Baseball Player
From Babe Ruth to today’s hottest MLB players, the Louisville Slugger Museum has a collection of bats that have been used by baseball’s greats. You can select one and pose with it! Talk about a great memory.
Take Batting Practice with a Great
At the back of the museum there is a batting cage where you can use a bat used by some of your favorite baseball players to take batting practice!
Bring Home A Souvenir
The gift shop is filled with hats, shirts, bats and more! Choose the bat of your favorite MLB player or get one personalized with your name on it.
Plus, at the end of the factory tour, you’ll come out with your own mini-bat to remember just how cool it was to see bats being made!
A visit to the Louisville Slugger Museum is a great way to celebrate baseball… and an amazing factory tour all in one.
Have you ever been to the Louisville Slugger Museum?
