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Stop 7 of 27 · Louisville audio walking tour

Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory

West Main District · 2015 · Brand purchased by Wilson

What you'll hear here: about a minute on Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory — the story behind what you're looking at, playing hands-free as you arrive.

Louisville Slugger bats have their own museum and factory here on Museum Row, in the West Main District of downtown Louisville, Kentucky. Step closer: this place showcases the story of Louisville Slugger baseball bats in baseball and in American history, and it stages ever-changing pop culture exhibits. Visitors here have seen collaborations with the Norman Rockwell Museum, the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center, Coca‑Cola, LEGO artists Sean Kenney and Jason Burik, Topps Trading Cards, The Children's Museum of Indianapolis, and Ripley's Believe It or Not!.

The building also holds corporate offices for Hillerich & Bradsby and its two other divisions, Bionic Gloves and PowerBilt Golf Clubs. After Wilson Sporting Goods purchased the brand from H&B in 2015, it maintained much of the Louisville Slugger sales force in this building, while the Hillerich family keeps ownership of the museum and the bat factory. This facility is the fourth location where Louisville Slugger bats have been made; the original shop stood on South First Street, between Main and Market Streets.

Notice the wooden bats moving from shop to showcase, and the museums and streets of Museum Row in the West Main District.

Where it is

Coordinates
38.25714, -85.76358
Area
West Main District
Era
2015 · Brand purchased by Wilson
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