The Louisville Slugger Genuine Mix is the hardwood bat sold under the brand that defined baseball bats in America — turned from maple and hickory blend billets, hand-finished, and weighted for balanced swing feel. The Genuine line is the recreational and practice-bat version of the pro-model bats Slugger delivers to Major League hitters.
Maple grain produces a harder hitting surface than ash and delivers a sharper pop off the barrel — it’s the wood most pros have switched to over the past two decades. The Mix bat gets the hardness of maple with the forgiveness of hickory, finishing as a bat that’s friendly enough for Little League but authentic enough for batting practice at any level.
Louisville Slugger has turned wood bats at its Louisville, Kentucky factory since 1884 — the same facility that lends its name to the Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory downtown. Every Genuine bat is turned, finished, and stamped in Kentucky from American-grown hardwood billets.