Louisville Slugger 125 Logo Metal Sign Baseball Bat Ad New Vintage Repro USA Tin For Sale

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Louisville Slugger 125 Logo Metal Sign Baseball Bat Ad New Vintage Repro USA Tin:
$9.99

Louisville Slugger 125 Logo

Vintage Poster Reproduction

New 16\" x 12.5\"Metal Sign

For sale is a brand new nostalgicLouisville Sluggermetal sign. It is a reproduction of a vintage poster, sign or advertising for the company. It has been produced with faux wear, rust, chips and damage to add to the vintage look and feel.

J. F. Hillerich openeda woodworking shop in Louisville in 1855 making balusters, bed posts and other wood-turned household items. During the 1880s, Hillerich\'s17-year-old son, John \"Bud\" Hillerich, began working as an apprentice at the company.An amateur baseball player, Budfashioned bats for himself and his teammates.

Legend has it that one afternoon in 1884 Bud slipped away from workto watch Louisville\'s major league team the Louisville Eclipse.The team\'s star, Pete \"The Gladiator\" Browning,mired in a hitting slump, broke his bat. Bud offered to hand-craft a new bat for Browning to his specifications.The first day he used it Browning got three hits to immediately break out of his slump. Browning told his teammates, which began a surge of professional ball players to the Hillerich woodworking shop.

While the elder Hillerich had little interest in producing bats, Bud saw the potential and eventually won over his father. The bats were sold under the name \"Falls City Slugger\" until Bud Hillerich took over his father\'s company in 1894 and the name \"Louisville Slugger\" was registered. In 1905, Honus Wagner signed a deal with the company, becoming the first baseball player to officially endorse a bat. Frank Bradsby, a salesman, became a partner in 1916, and the company\'s name changed to Hillerich and Bradsby. By 1923, H&B was selling more bats than any other bat maker in the country, and legends like Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig were all using them.

Thesign has a light brown background fashioned to look like boards. The designfeatures the125 logo as it would appear on a bat. The text reads: LOUISVILLE SLUGGER, 125, HILLERICH & BRADSBY Co, MADE IN U.S.A., LOUISVILLE, KY., TRADE MARK REG.\"