One of the things my wife and I decided to do when we were visiting Louisville was to walk down to the famous Louisville Slugger Museum. Since it is Wednesday and it was a beautiful day for a walk, I am going to include this in the #wednesdaywalk initiative started by 
I erroneously took us towards the field. If you need some perspective, the field is just across the street from where the recent mass shooting took place in Louisville.
After I got my bearings, I turned us back around and we passed in front of the KFC Yum! Center. It was a beautiful day, so my wife and I didn't really mind the extra walking. The mistake did put us behind on our schedule though, and that ended up having an impact on the rest of our morning.
As you saw in the opening photo, just outside the museum is a massive bat. There were any number of people getting their photos taken in front of it. For that reason, I opted to just take the one photo from far away. I don't like getting random people in my shots any more than I have to.
As I mentioned before, taking us in the wrong direction cost us time and because of that, we only walked through the museum part of the facility instead of taking the full tour of the bat factory. After spending $24 a piece or so to get in, I kind of wish we had at least walked through the tour, but it wasn't self guided, so who knows how long we could have been tied up and we were starting to get hungry for lunch.
It's crazy to think how many people have used the famous Louisville Slugger bat over the years. They actually have a section of the museum where you can hold certain bats that players have used over the years.
I've gotta believe that Louisville Slugger is probably still the largest maker of bats in the major league. I know my nieces use Easton bats for Softball but they also have a couple sluggers too. In a little bit I will share some photos that give you the full scope of how prolific the Louisville Slugger is.
This is the section I was talking about where you can hold a players game used bat and get your picture taken. My brother in law was telling me that there is also a section called the vault where you can get hold several other iconic bats as well. I think it costs extra to visit that part of the museum.
The museum itself actually isn't that big. There are several displays like the one above throughout the room, but it's basically a single room for the whole exhibit.
Of course there is a lot of attention paid to The Great Bambino. I mean he is one of the most well known players in the history of the game, so it only makes sense. The fact that he swung a Louisville Slugger is just icing on the cake for the museum.
They also had a section of one wall that was dedicated to talking about how they made, moved, and mounted the iconic massive bat outside the front of the building. The scale really is impressive when you look at the people next to it.
They also had a wall that was dedicated to softball players who swing the famous Louisville bat. I made sure to take some photos here because my nieces are so involved in softball. I feel like I have been watching the streams of them play pretty much every night this pas month.
They also had a section of a wall dedicated to the Negro league players. Probably some of the greatest baseball players you have never heard of before. Simply because of the color of their skin and bigotry of the country at the time.
this was my favorite part of the museum. It showed a bat that was in the middle of being turned on a lathe. As I said, I think I probably would have really enjoyed the factory tour if we had been afforded more time.
Perhaps next time we visit!
Finally, I had to take a few more pictures of some historic bats. That second one I took specifically because it had a bat from Dave Winfield in it. I still have a Dave Winfield baseball card kicking around somewhere in my basement, so I kind of felt a tinge of nostalgia when I saw that bat.
If the lathe was my favorite part of the museum, this wall of players who have signed contracts with Louisville Slugger was probably my second favorite. It actually sits just outside the entrance to the museum, and it is covered with names.
They have them broken down in to decades and I am not kidding when I say the wall is probably eight feet high by at least 40 feet long and it wraps around to the entrance of the exhibit.
The museum was packed with people the whole time we were there and by the time we were finished looking at the exhibits we were ready to get some fresh air and head back down to the other end of whiskey row where we were planning on eating lunch.
We skipped the gift shop, but dozens of kids were delighted to get their hands on a mini Louisville Slugger bat to swing around walking down the sidewalk!
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