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Louisville will always be a classic baseball bat choice, although nike baseball bats and other brands with advanced technology are starting to emerge   The handle of the World's Largest Bat pokes above the five-story brick edifice of the Slugger Museum.Other businesses advertising on Main Street have attempted to cash in on the Slugger's brisk photo op traffic, with varied degrees of cleverness. A three-dimensional baseball appears to smash a giant window in a sign for Kentucky Mirror and Plate Glass. A few blocks further on, another huge bat -- the leathery flying kind -- hangs upside down and clings to the brick wall of Caufield's, a costume and decoration store.   The Louisville Slugger, America's most famous baseball bat, has been manufactured since 1884. In 1974, bat production was moved to a factory in Jeffersonville, Indiana, then returned to Louisville when owner Hillerich & Bradsby Co. opened the factory and museum complex in 1996.   The museum, dedicated to the story of baseball and the art of hitting, includes a short film, a replica dugout, interactive displays and baseball memorabilia. The tour allows visitors to see Hillerich & Bradsby bats and golf clubs in production (golf clubs were first made in a Louisville factory in 1916).   The museum and factory tour apparently succeed in generating the same must-see status possessed by great ball fields, and Cooperstown, NY's Baseball Hall of Fame. Baseball lovers travel from out-of-state, and even other countries, pilgrimages to understand what manufacturing mojo separates immortal, home run heroes from forgotten foul line bums.  We stood next to a 40-ish man who was reverently touching each baseball bat in a display, muttering the model names from memory.A final mighty tribute to baseball sits in the building's atrium -- a sculpture of a baseball mitt and ball, made from 15-tons of limestone. World's Largest Bat Address: 800 West Main Street, Louisville, KY Directions: Hillerich & Bradsby Co., I-64 exit 4. Right onto River Rd, which runs under the freeway. Left at stop sign onto 8th St., right at the light onto Main St. Hours: Daily 9 am - 5pm, closed Sundays. (Call to verify) Phone: 502-588-7228  CREATELINKTOWARDSTHISARTICLE PREVIEWQUOTE
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