The Louisville Slugger bat is advertised as "the bat of champions since 1884." Professional players, semi-professionals, and amateur players have used this bat since that date. It has been "the bat" for many major leaguers during the intervening years and, in fact, during the 1940s and 1950s almost every major leaguer used a Louisville Slugger bat. With escalating baseball salaries, major leaguers can now easily afford to have personalized bats made for them. This has resulted in more companies and mom and pop businesses entering the baseball bat manufacturing business. In the early 1900s there were also individuals who became bat manufacturers as baseball expanded and there ...

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