One-third of all pro baseball players now swing handmade wooden bats made by Marucci Sports, a Baton Rouge, La., company that began when a father made a bat for his son. Jack Marucci's 8-year-old son ...

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It begins in a 6'-by-9' tool shed, adjacent to a backyard wiffle ball stadium, where a man started carving bats for his little boy, never imagining that his lumber would one day be swung by the men of ...

NEW YORK — Jared Smith and Kurt Ainsworth collectively have over 35 years of expertise in the bat-making industry. Yet nothing they’ve seen has sparked excitement quite like the unprecedented surge of ...

The name Marucci is synonymous with excellence in baseball. Is it any wonder, then, that LSU's run to the College World Series is being armed by the man behind one of the premier baseball equipment ...

Marucci Sports, a Baton Rouge sports apparel manufacturer primarily known as a bat supplier for Major League Baseball, has been sold for $572 million. Compass Diversified, a Connecticut firm that ...

Marucci Sports launched two decades ago with a secondhand lathe in a backyard shed, where one of its founders churned out perfectly balanced wooden baseball bats by hand. It's about as old school an ...

BATON ROUGE, La., April 04, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Marucci Sports, LLC (“Marucci”), a subsidiary of Compass Diversified (NYSE: CODI) and a leading designer and manufacturer of baseball and fastpitch ...

Iconic bat maker struggles amid crowded field and changing times Marucci Bat Company%2C founded in 2002%2C challenges Slugger as top choice in majors Players say bat choice all about feel and not ...