The baseball bat industry is so huge that of course most of the big companies are mass producing their bats. But handcrafted baseball bats aren’t a lost art, and Morgan Paige from PressPassTV has a report with great visuals from on how Akadema makes bats by hand.
I’m not sure what made him pick up a wood lathe an auction, but I’m glad that Michael Dean did. It made for a great story. Since he had the lathe, when his son Matt asked him to make him a new baseball bat, he gave it a try. The short version of the story: Matt loved the bat. Matt’s baseball team loved the bats. And now, just two years later, Michael has a full-fledged company. Michael’s bat manufacturing company, Silver Creek Baseball Bats, produces all of their bats by hand, and they’re expected to sell 1500 this year!
