Baton Rouge-based Marucci Sports has acquired a Utah-based company that is the official bat grip for Major League Baseball. Marucci Sports bought Lizard Skins which sells branded grip products, ...

Kurt Ainsworth remembers running a baseball batting cage business that gave youth lessons during the day, then moonlighting to help build baseball bat maker Marucci Bat Co. in its early years. “We ...

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 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 ...

Joe Lawrence helped co-found Marucci Sports, the Baton Rouge company known for making baseball bats used by hundreds of Major League Baseball players. But his new business venture is all about ...