The New York Times

Marucci, Victus replace Louisville Slugger as MLB’s official bats: What it means

Louisville Slugger has been synonymous with Major League Baseball for more than 100 years, but now Marucci Sports, a company founded in 2002, has replaced it as MLB’s official bat. “I created (Marucci ...
The Cincinnati Enquirer

Want to buy a torpedo bat? Here's how you can hit dingers, too

Torpedo bats have been a hit among Major League Baseball players. The MLB-legal, tailor-made bats with weight distribution toward the barrel have become the talk of the town after the New York Yankees ...
The New York Times

‘Torpedomania’: MLB’s latest obsession leads to a wild week for bat makers

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 Advocate

Marucci Sports started in a Baton Rouge shed. Here's how it toppled the biggest names in baseball.

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 ...