Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory
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| Established | 1996 |
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| Location | 800 West Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky 40202 |
| Visitors | 303,000 (2015) |
| Website | SluggerMuseum.com |
Coordinates: 38°15′25.7″N 85°45′48.9″W / 38.257139°N 85.763583°W
The Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory, is a museum and factory tour attraction located in Louisville, Kentucky's "Museum Row", part of the West Main District of downtown. The museum showcases the story of Louisville Slugger baseball bats in baseball and in American history. The museum also creates temporary exhibits with more of a pop culture focus, including collaborations with the Norman Rockwell Museum, the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center,Coca-Cola, LEGO brick artists Sean Kenney and Jason Burik,Topps Trading Cards,The Children's Museum of Indianapolis, and Ripley's Believe It or Not!.
The facility is the fourth location where Louisville Slugger bats have been made. The original shop was on South First Street in Louisville between Main and Market Streets. It was there that family legend suggests J. A. "Bud" Hillerich made a bat for Louisville Eclipse star Pete Browning after Browning broke his bat during a game in which Hillerich attended in July 1884. The next day, Browning got three hits with the bat and the legend was born. In 1901, the factory moved to the corner of South Preston and Finzer Streets, where they would stay until 1974. This site was vacant for many years after, but the land was donated to the city in 2015 to be developed into a community space. From 1974 to 1996, Louisville Sluggers were actually made in Jeffersonville, Indiana, just across the Ohio River at a facility called Slugger Park, while H&B maintained corporate offices on Broadway in Louisville.
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