Anyhow, near the end of the Louisville Slugger tour they gave us the opportunity to take batting practice using replicas of those they made for current or future Hall of Fame players like Ted Williams (Jim), Ken Griffey Jr (Jeff/John/Colin ), Ty Cobb (it was too heavy to even pick up) and Manny Ramirez (none of us are ready to go there yet).

We only captured video of one of us in the cage (Jeff), which is fortunate for the rest of us. Collectively, we hit a series of squibs, weak grounders, foul tips and ankle breakers. It wasn’t pretty. And the balls were only coming at us at 40 mph (sigh).

Whose bat would you like to swing in a batting cage? They could probably arrange it if you made the trip to Louisville.