Why Louisville Slugger for our Sportsmanship Awards?

We hand out custom Louisville Slugger Prime baseball bats each year as part of our sportsmanship award. When we first decided to create this award in Ty's name, we reached out to several sports equipment companies to see if they would support our mission. Wilson Sports (the parent company of Louisville Slugger) was the one company to respond, generously pledging to send us four Louisville Slugger bats to help launch the award in our first year.

Since then, we've continued handing out Louisville Slugger Prime MLB bats, as we believe there’s no better award for these young players. Who knows—maybe one day, we'll see one of them playing in the MLB with one of these bats in hand.