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Page Excerpt: 1884 brought the beginning of the most famous name in baseball bats today - The Louisville Slugger. It all started at a baseball game in Louisville, a 17 year old John Hillerich watched Louisville player Pete Browning become frustrated after breaking his favorite bat.
Page Excerpt: I was dead even when picking between new bats this year and found that I actually hit the ball more solid with the Wicked then with the new Stealth. The whiplash action to be is almost even Wicked hit them deep and solid -great bat -- Buckshot, Tuesday, April 12, 2005.
Because bats of all shapes and sizes were being used, a rule was made in 1859 that bats could be no larger than 2. 5 inches in diameter, although they could be of any length. Ten years later in 1869, another rule was added that stated the baseball bat could be no longer than 42 inches in length - the same maximum length allowed today.
