Rainy days and Mondays ain’t getting us down…

Posted on by rmiracle

Well mostly….

The original good weather plan was to travel about 60 miles down I64 to Lexington and tour Keeneland race track and several horse farms and pick up some Pizza Pie at Joe B’s in Lexington.  Well that got washed.

Instead we took my mother-in-law computer shopping. Time for her old Dell desktop with Windows XP to be retired and move her into the 21st century.  Let’s just say after spending 2 hours in Best Buy she’s now the hippest Granny in the world (at least to her g-kids!).

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The world’s largest bat outside the Louisville Slugger museum and factory.

After a quick-lunch it was off to the Louisville Slugger bat factory for a tour.  This old building in downtown Louisville makes most of the wood bats used for professional baseball from the MLB to the minors.  All the bats were actually hand-made there until the late 1980s.  If you’re even the least bit of a baseball fan, it probably should be on your baseball bucket list.  Sorry no tour photos allowed!

Even with “buckets” of rain falling from the sky, we took a brief trip up the “Baseball Walk of Fame”.  The Walk of Fame starts at the Louisville Slugger museum and continues down main street for about a mile to Louisville Slugger field, home of the Louisville Bat’s AAA minor league team, overlooking the bank’s of the Ohio River.

Johnny Bench,, hall of fame catcher for the Cincinnati Reds in the 1970's used Louisville Slugger bats and has his Walk of Fame plaque in the 700 block of W. Main in Louisivlle.
Johnny Bench,, hall of fame catcher for the Cincinnati Reds in the 1970’s used Louisville Slugger bats and has his Walk of Fame plaque in the 700 block of W. Main in Louisville.

Along this walk are bronzed bat’s and home plate statuettes to many MLB Hall of Fame players who used Louisville Sluggers in their career.  We only got about two block’s worth visited.

We got home for about an hour, enough time to reset and head out for the next adventure… the 2014 Great Bed Race.