Entrepreneur Todd Eschman turned a passion for playing vintage league baseball into a business making vintage wood baseball bats. A $10,000 prize for start-ups from PNC Bank and Southern Illinois University helped fund the launch.
Old Dutch Classic Bats, a start-up vintage baseball bat manufacturer won $10,000 after taking first place in the Metro East Startup Challenge regional business plan competition for entrepreneurs in Southwestern Illinois.
A vintage baseball bat manufacturer and a grain-to-glass distiller captured first and second place in the Metro East Startup Challenge regional business plan competition for entrepreneurs in Southwestern Illinois.
Fifteen Southwestern Illinois-based entrepreneurs and their innovative business concepts have been selected to move into the second round of the Metro East’s very first regional business plan competition.