>>>It's always bothered me that they are the New York Jets and New York Giants when they play in New Jersey. I have the same issue with the Cincinnati airport, which is not even in Ohio... it's in Kentucky.
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>>And, IIRC, the Louisville Slugger factory is in Ohio.
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>>But for those of us who live in big cities near state borders, all this is par for the course. The Philadelphia are includes parts of New Jersey and Delaware, and plenty of organizations with "Philadelphia" in their names serve people outside Pennsylvania.
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>>Understand that from where I live, if I draw a circle with a 300-mile radius, it includes parts of Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, West Virginia, Ohio, and Ontario. In fact, it includes all of several of those states.
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>>BTW, found a cool to help me figure this out: http://www.freemaptools.com/radius-around-point.htm
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>There may be a Slugger factory elsewhere (that makes metal or lower cost bats) but the original factory - where the MLB bats are made - is still in Looeyville ;)

First, I misspoke. I said Ohio, but I'm pretty sure the factory we visited about 30 years ago was in Indiana. Okay, found the info on the History page of their site:

"Hillerich & Bradsby Co. moved its offices to the Portland Federal Building in downtown Louisville in 1968. Within six years the company bought a building in Jeffersonville, Indiana, and Louisville Slugger bat production moved across the river. The corporate offices always remained in Louisville. "

Later it says they moved production back to Louisville in '96. So we were both right.

Tamar