Hillerich & Bradsby Co. Information

Hillerich & Bradsby Co. is a world-class sporting goods manufacturer and operator of the renowned Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory and our new bourbon experience, Barrels & Billets The company also produces award-winning Bionic Gloves. H&B has manufactured Louisville Slugger® wood bats, the Official Bat of Major League Baseball®, since 1884. Great stars of today’s game, like Daniel Murphy, Adam Jones, Joey Votto, Jason Heyward, and Christian Yelich, swing Louisville Slugger PRIME bats. The Slugger Guy fraternity that includes the greatest hitters to ever swing a bat – Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, Jackie Robinson, Mickey Mantle, Roberto Clemente, George Brett, Tony Gwynn, and Ken Griffey Jr, to name a few. More home runs, hits, and RBIs have occurred with Louisville Slugger bats than all other bat brands combined. H&B owned the world-famous Louisville Slugger brand from its inception in 1884 to 2015, when Wilson Sporting Goods acquired it. H&B now serves as Wilson’s manufacturing partner for wood bats. Our company’s renowned Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory attracts more than 300,000 visitors annually and is ranked as a top national and international attraction. Visitors tour the factory floor, seeing and touching MLB player bats before they ship to a Major League ballpark. The museum features fabulous pieces of baseball history, including a Babe Ruth game-used bat from the record-breaking 1927 season and a Joe DiMaggio 56-game hit streak bat from the historic 1941 MLB season. Fans can also get their hands on game-used bats in the museum’s popular Hold a Piece of History exhibit, which features bats from all 30 MLB teams. H&B’s award-winning Bionic® gloves division designs and makes the most technologically and scientifically advanced gloves for golf, fitness, gardening and other sports and activities and recently entered a collaboration with former professional football star Marshawn Lynch and his Beast Mode brand.