When the Sports Illustrated photographer called in the spring of 1990 to say he wanted to photograph the Cooperstown Bat Company, they warned him they were no big deal, just a small workshop in a garage. "Like Geppetto's in Pinocchio," they said. His response was "That's what we like best!" His pictures appeared with an article about their fine collectible bats in the July 9, 1990 issue of Sports Illustrated.

"Cooperstown Bat Company also makes an excellent line of Pro Model bats for adult and youth play. Pro wood, ash and maple, coming direct from the timber producer in upstate New York. Each bat is turned in our local factory." -- Connie Haney, Co-owner

Baseball fans inspired the formation of the Cooperstown Bat Company in 1981. From an idea poked, prodded, and examined with bleary eyes in the hours between midnight and 3 am in the basement and kitchen of their home, it grew to childhood in a barn and adolescence in a friend's garage in Cooperstown. In 1991 maturity led it to a real home in its very own building in Fly Creek (a suburb of Cooperstown). In 1995 they added a neat little retail store at 118 Main St., Cooperstown. Along the way they had figured out how to make beautiful decaled baseball bats and how to be a bat company with a difference.

                 

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