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The story of how the iconic Louisville slugger baseball bat came to be is fascinating.

JF Hillerich opened his woodworking shop in Louisville in 1855.

During the 1880s, Hillerich hired his 17-year-old son, John Bud Hillerich, legend had it that

Bud, who played baseball himself, slipped away from work one afternoon in 1884 to watch Louisville's

major league team, the Louisville Eclipse.

The team star, Pete Louisville slugger Browning, was mired in a hitting slump and he broke

his bat at his last time at the plate.

But invited Browning to his father's shop to handcraft him a new bat to his own specifications.

Browning accepted the offer and in the next game got three hits to immediately break out

of his slump with his new bat.

Browning told his teammates, which began a surge of professional ball players pilgrimageing

to Hillerich's woodworking shop.

Daddy Hillerich was uninterested in making bats.

He saw the company's future in stair railings, porch columns, and swinging butter churns.

In fact, for a brief time in the 1880s, he even turned away ball players.

Bud, however, saw the potential in producing baseball bats and Daddy Hillerich eventually

relented to his son.

The bats were sold under the name Falls City Slugger.

Until Bud took over his father's company in 1894 and he renamed it the Louisville Slugger,

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