Finally back in the Bluegrass State! And you know what that means…Another Kentucky Fried Bucket List entry. When I was in 7th grade my class went on a field trip to the Slugger Museum but in all my years of actually living in Louisville I never made the efforts to visit.

Since I was visiting Kentucky for yet another wedding along with the fact that I had brought a date with me, I decided the museum would be the perfect event to kill time on Saturday before the wedding. After all, my date did play softball in college so I figured this would be right up her alley.

Tours take place every 30 minutes and of course we bought our tickets at 12:31PM. What this ended up meaning for us was that we would get to mingle in the foyer area for 29 minutes looking at baseball paraphernalia. The first thing I found was a selection of Hall of Famers previously used bats. The most prestigious of the collection was a bat of Mickey Mantle(seen in bunting action above).

After playing with the bats we read a bunch of stats and looked at some pictures, clay mannequins and some display of women’s pro baseball. It started to get boring and I became anxious as time slowly creeped on.

Finally, it was 1 and our tour was ready to begin. We entered the double doors and flashbacks of freshman year shop class came flooding through my neurons. I guess I forgot that the Louisville Slugger factory was essentially a wood working shop. As with all museums, pictures weren’t allowed but if you ever took shop class you wouldn’t need them. There wasn’t really much to please the eye. The tour was only like 15 minutes long and rather disappointing. It was interesting to see that the whole factory was ran with only a few employees though.

And as with each commencement of a tour at the Louisville Slugger Museum, visitors are awarded a miniature bat. A mini-bat that we would not be able to carry on the plane by the way. Lame. Overall, I would say that if you have ever been to the museum or are over the age of 12, you probably shouldn’t waste your time. But for the true baseball enthusiasts, you will probably get a kick out of the random tidbits you will learn.