Bats and Music
Up to Louisville. We parked the carbus at a Walmart about ten miles from downtown and drove the Suzuki downtown. Our goal – Louisville Slugger museum and factory where over 80% of bats used in major league baseball are made.
Great museum with static and interactive displays covering many baseball greats and immortals.
Tour takes you onto the floor to watch all steps of bat making in progress. Tour starts with demo of how bats used to be made by turning by hand on a lathe. Expert woodworker takes about 20 minutes to turn a bat. Automatic lathes used now take less than 15 seconds to turn a bat. Main production bats are cut using one of several templates to guide lathe. MLB bats are cut using computer guided lathes. Personal specs for every major league player are in data base. Two or three keystrokes and lathes can crank out as many bats as needed tuned to a particular players wants.
Recent addition to museum is a room of things baseball done in Legos.
This next picture is a clever idea. The picture shows a baseball action scene all done in Legos. Within the picture are all the words to “Take Me Out to the Ball Game”. The word Legos are raised slightly. Looking straight on you don’t see them but from the side they pop out.
Back to get the carbus and then south to Bardstown. In Bardstown is a state park (nice campground) which encompasses the house and grounds of the home that was the inspiration for Stephen Foster’s song ‘My Old Kentucky Home’. Also on the park grounds, not far from the home, is an outdoor amphitheater. This is the summer home of a production now in its’ 55th year. The Stephen Foster Story. Two and a half hours of Stephen Fosters’ music tied together by a romantic story line and performed VERY well by a cast of about twenty. Some cast members have been part of the show for 20-30 years. We thoroughly enjoyed the whole production.
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