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One-third of all pro baseball players now swing handmade wooden bats made by Marucci Sports, a Baton Rouge, La., company that began when a father made a bat for his son. Jack Marucci s 8-year-old son Gino wanted a wooden bat like his big league heroes. The problem Bat companies didn t make wooden bats for kids - only aluminum ones. So Marucci got creative, and carved a bat, complete with his son s name, at his work bench.When asked how he went from making bats for 8-year-olds to hall-of-famers, Marucci replied, Someti
stanley cup mes, I think we still scratch our head. Marucci s job as the head athletic trainer at Louisiana State University put him in regular contact with players and former players, including Kurt Ainsworth, who convinced him to start a company making handmade bats for professionals. Now Marucci Sports makes bats for more than 30 percent of the Major League, including all-stars Jose Reyes, David Ortiz and Chase Utley. Albert Pujols was swinging a Marucci bat when he hit three home runs in last year s World Series - a feat equaled only by Reggie Jackson and Babe Ruth, and part of th
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This automotive concept sketch from 1979 predicted a future where car interiors would resemble an airplane cockpit. But
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stanley quencher dynamic styling to its Airflow sedan. But the undeniable heyday of aeronautically inspired automobiles was the 1950s, when jet age designers clapped fins, wings and air scoops on even the most mundane vehicles. That fad had long passed by January 1979, the date stamped on this car interior concept drawing. So what led the artist to sketch a cockpit-style design While little is known about this drawing provenance, we can assume by the LeBaron name that this was a Chrysler design exercise, official or otherwise. In place of a wheel, steering is handled by a gul
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