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🗓️ 16 July 2025
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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. |
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