Marucci Sports, a maker of bats, gloves and other baseball equipment, is being sold to specialized bicycle and dirtbike suspension maker Fox Factory Holding Corp. in a deal valuing the business at ...

It started out in a shed in Baton Rouge and has since expanded to a wood mill on an Amish farm in Pennsylvania. Jack Marucci's baseball bat company, Marucci Bats, grew from the ground up. Literally.

Marucci Sports launched two decades ago with a secondhand lathe in a backyard shed, where one of its founders churned out perfectly balanced wooden baseball bats by hand. It's about as old school an ...

It begins in a 6'-by-9' tool shed, adjacent to a backyard wiffle ball stadium, where a man started carving bats for his little boy, never imagining that his lumber would one day be swung by the men of ...

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Louisville Slugger has been synonymous with Major League Baseball for more than 100 years, but now Marucci Sports, a company founded in 2002, has replaced it as MLB’s official bat. “I created (Marucci ...

Marucci, once known as a wood-bat brand, wants to tie to those roots with the latest release of its new 2018 BBCOR aluminum bat line. With that release comes, for the first time, a Posey28 Pro Metal ...

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 ...

Compass Diversified Holdings has agreed to acquire Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based Marucci Sports LLC, a baseball and softball brand. The purchase price is $200 million. WESTPORT, Conn., March 9, 2020 – ...

Baton Rouge-based Marucci Sports has reached a deal for its two most popular lines to become the official bats of Major League Baseball. The three-year deal takes effect on Jan. 1. It calls for ...