Debbie Cook demonstrates the drying rack wooden bats are placed on after being painted at Hoosier Bat Company in Valparaiso. Birch is “more durable, more flexible, more everything” compared to ...

VALPARAISO | Tampa Bay Rays catcher Jose Lobaton swung a bat made in Valparaiso when he belted a walk-off homer out of Tropicana Field in the bottom of the ninth Monday. The game-winning home run ...

Not only is Hoosier Bat celebrating its 25th year in business, but Cook’s wife and co-owner, Debbie Cook, pointed out that it is now the second oldest wood bat company in the country.

Hoosier Bat Co. owner Debbie Cook holds one of the bats they make with their signature three stripes at ... the company's philanthropic outlets include a high school fall wooden bat league in the ...

A three-piece wooden bat David Cook developed in 1989 became popular among professional baseball players, but ended up nearly devastating his upstart manufacturing company. Major League Baseball ...