You know you’ve reached the big leagues when Yasiel Puig licks your bat. “He used them in the (2018) World Series and got an RBI hit, and that was a watershed moment for us,” says Cody Silveria, the ...
Somewhere Joseph Schumpeter is smiling. The reason, Dave Jones. Schumpeter, an Austrian-American economist, popularized the term creative destruction to describe how economies reinvent themselves ...
Ahead of his team's spring training opener, Bryce Harper dawned a bat featuring a likeness of Phillie Phanatic, the mascot of the Philadelphia Phillies. Despite undergoing Tommy John surgery last ...
IRWINDALE – Mario Valdes gets lost in his work. “When you are making a bat, you are taken to a whole other world,” said the owner of Glomar Enterprises in Irwindale. “You just block everything else ...
The saying goes that when life hands you lemons, you make lemonade. But what happens if life hands you an enormous supply of lumber? If you're John Smatana, owner of Johnnyville Slugger, you start ...
Any conversation about bats for high school or NCAA baseball, slowpitch softball or fastpitch — or, let’s face it, how to crush the opposition at your next company outing — inevitably includes the ...
Finding the right baseball bat for your Little Leaguer has always been a trial-and-error process. Some stores display fitting charts, primarily based off a child’s ...
IRWINDALE – Mario Valdes gets lost in his work. “When you are making a bat, you are taken to a whole other world,” said the owner of Glomar Enterprises in Irwindale. “You just block everything else ...