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Side Hustle School

Ep. 3119 - STORY: Ex-Baseball Players Hit Home Run With Baseball Bat Subscriptions

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Two former baseball players create a bat rental service, serving thousands of customers across the country. 

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0:00.0

Lemonada.

0:02.7

Ex-baseball players hit home run.

0:13.5

Maybe it's even a grand slam with baseball bat subscriptions.

0:17.6

This is a fun story.

0:18.7

Two former baseball players create a bat rental service serving thousands of customers across the country.

0:25.5

Did you know that baseball bats can be rented out? And in fact, it's often better for families with kids playing baseball to rent the bats rather than buy them.

0:34.5

I learned that when I was first researching this episode long ago.

0:38.5

This is in fact a remix of one of our best stories from, I think, early 2018. So if you were

0:45.0

listening back then, you might remember some about it, but we always re-record. We also

0:49.5

include new updates in some cases. And if you weren't around in 2018, it's a completely new

0:53.8

story. So in this one, it's a completely new story.

0:54.8

So in this one, it's about two baseball players. They advanced a bit further than me. I actually

1:00.4

played Little League once, and I was MVP one year when I was eight. But then I didn't go on

1:05.6

too far from that. One of these baseball players was actually drafted by a major league baseball team.

1:11.5

Then they created a subscription service for baseball bats serving thousands of customers all across the country.

1:17.9

At the time we first ran this story, they were earning up to $50,000 a month.

1:23.4

Pretty cool at Side Ussel, right?

1:25.4

So let's hear the details.

1:26.6

Let's take a seventh inning stretch. Shout out to our sponsor and then batter up.

1:33.9

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1:45.9

So you can fast forward through editing images, designing presentations, generating code,

1:51.0

debugging code, running lots of apps without lag, creating live translations and captions,

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