Photos: Swinging by Louisville, where bats are born

At the Louisville Slugger factory, bats for different levels of the game are made using different processes and by different people. Danny Luckett makes the bats for major leaguers using a computer numerical control (CNC) machine, but he and others used to do it with a specialized lathe. Here, Luckett weighs a new bat to be sure it's up to specification.

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