Go get em' Slugger

It only seems appropriate to end our journey with a stop at Louisville Slugger factory and Museum where they make 1.8 million bats a year, tens of thousands of them for MLB.
We got to watch them make bats from a block of wood into an actual finished, Authentic Major League baseball bat. We watched them carve Buster Posey's of the San Francisco Giants and then dip it in a glaze. It use to take a skill craftsman, 30 minutes from Billet to Bat. However, even though they still have one guy who can do it the old fashioned way, they use machines for the shaving and churning down of a bat now. I saw a cubbie full of Billets, ready to be manufactured for Dustin Pedroia and Derek Jeter.
Tim, Craig, Luke and I got to pose with Game USED bats of: Mickey Mantle, Hank Aaorn, David Ortiz and Derek Jeter. Tim even hit in the cage with a Hank Aaron bat. How cool is that?!
The kids will be receiving a MLB bat with their very own signature in 10 days from no other then Louisville Slugger.
This trip has been a whirl wind but totally worth it.