The Official Bat of Major League Baseball is still being manufactured in Louisville, KY, and despite what competition has recently said, Louisville Slugger is still the #1 choice among the best players in the game. With more 2013 MLB All-Stars swinging Slugger than any other brand, we are thrilled to be the preferred bat among the game’s elite.

Wells Fargo steps up to the plate with a $40 million credit line for slumping Hillerich & Bradsby, maker of the Louisville Slugger bat and other baseball related products.

Shattering rates on hard maple bats fell 50% after Major League Baseball tapped wood science. This manufacturing solution was this week's most read report. Also highly viewed: video and news on the a deadly train wreck hobbling Tafisa's panel shipments.

The rate of shattered baseball bats 50 percent less, thanks to Major League Baseball and the U.S. Forest Service.

The quickening pace of U.S. wood manufacture has been accompanied by another phenomenon: marketing of “Made in America.”

Home runs were flying at Detroit's Comerica and other baseball parks around the nation this weekend. Thankfully though, the number of bats flying were kept to a minimum.

Research by the USDA Forest Service, Forest Products Lab into the causes of baseball bat shattering has resulted in a 50 percent reduction of incidences, according to Major League Baseball.