| 词汇 | louisville |
| 词源 | Louisville; Louisville Slugger. Louisville, the largest city in Kentucky, was named for France’s Louis XVI in 1780 in recog- nition of the assistance he had given America during the Revo- lutionary War. Home of Fort Knox, the Kentucky Derby, the mint julep, many bourbon distilleries, and the only inland United States Coast Guard station, Louisville also houses the famous Hillerich & Bradley’s baseball bat factory, where the re- nowned Louisville Slugger has been made since 1884. The bat is of course named after the city named after a king. Louisville Sluggers are made from prime white ash, one mature tree is needed to make 60 bats, and more than 6 million are turned out each year. Some 2 percent of the annual production goes to professional ballplayers, these fashioned from specifications noted in a 50,000-card file covering the bat preferences of ball- players past and present. |
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