Louisville Slugger Giant bat - Louisville, KY - USA
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N 38° 15.442 W 085° 45.827
16S E 608157 N 4235093
The Louisville Slugger, America's most famous baseball bat, has been manufactured since 1884.
Waymark Code: WM191PD
Location: Kentucky, United States
Date Posted: 11/09/2023
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Leaning against the Louisville Slugger factory and museum is the world's largest baseball bat.
The Louisville Slugger Museum is distinguished from surrounding buildings by the 120-foot-tall baseball bat leaning against it. Erected in July 1996, the bat weighs 34 tons and is made of hollow carbon steel and has a barrel diameter of 9 feet. It's covered with the same kind of paint used on battleships, simulating the wooden bat used by Babe Ruth in the early 1920s -- which was all of 34 inches long.
Normally something this size would quickly run afoul of local signage laws, but the bat is also a plumbing vent for the museum's basement bathrooms. So the city said it could stay.
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.
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