Each player receives a batch of custom-made, game-ready "World Series" bats This year, Louisville Slugger had to make bats for both the Angels and Yankees Some players still have a hankering for the old days when bats were handmade Today's Louisville Slugger machines turn a bat in 47 seconds. Kostya Kennedy will periodically answer questions from SI.com users in his mailbag. Make it to the World Series as a player these days and you're guaranteed a year-end bonus, win or lose, in the neighborhood of a quarter million dollars. You'll also get, shipped up from the Louisville Slugger Bat Factory, a batch of custom-made game-ready baseball bats, with "2009 WORLD SERIES" seared into the barrel right under your name. "Except the relief pitchers," says Dan Cohen, curator of the factory's museum. "They're on their own." The factory... [read full story]
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A jury on Wednesday found that the maker of Louisville Slugger baseball bats failed to adequately warn about the dangers the product can pose, awarding a family $850,000 for the 2003 death of their son in a baseball game.
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