Louisville Slugger is a baseball and softball equipment brand best known for bats, including the Atlas Hybrid BBCOR bat, wood composite bats and the returning Supra line. The brand is operated by Wilson Sporting Goods Co., based in Chicago, which is part of the Amer Sports group.
Same category, HQ in USA
EAEaston makes baseball and softball equipment, including bats such as the Hype Fire line in BBCOR, USSSA and USA models and the Ghost fastpitch bats, plus custom gloves and protective gear. Easton Diamond Sports was acquired by Rawlings, and Easton's site sits within Rawlings.
Baseball and softball bats and gear
RARawlings is a baseball and softball-equipment maker established in 1887, with products such as gloves, bats, balls and protective gear. Its company news says it acquired Easton Diamond Sports in 2020 and is a portfolio company of Seidler Equity Partners. The same first-party notice identifies Easton as an equipment supplier to Little League Baseball and Softball, Team USA Softball and USSSA Softball; those supplier relationships are Easton's, not automatically Rawlings sponsorships.
Baseball and softball equipment
STStringKing makes sports equipment, with roots in lacrosse mesh and sticks and later products for baseball and softball. Its company story says Jake McCampbell and Luke Aronson started it in Medfield, Massachusetts, in 2011. The page traces its first product to weather-resistant lacrosse mesh, then describes expansion into other sporting markets. Statements about performance and professional adoption are the company's claims, not proof that every product suits a particular athlete or league.
Specialist sports equipment
FRFranklin Sports makes sporting goods including baseball gear, pickleball products and equipment for many other sports, and sells official MLB gear. Brothers Sydney and Irving Franklin founded it in Brockton, Massachusetts, in 1946, using scrap leather from local shoe factories to make footballs, boxing gloves, basketballs and baseball gloves. In 1984 it invented the Pro Classic, which it calls the first-ever batting glove. Over the years it has worked with athletes such as Joe Namath, Sugar Ray Leonard, David Robinson, Dan Marino and Barry Bonds, and it has released limited batting gloves with Fear of God.
Specialist sports equipment
NINike makes athletic footwear, apparel and equipment, with ranges across sports such as the NFL and collaborations such as NikeSKIMS. NIKE, Inc. is made up of the Nike, Jordan and Converse brands. The company was co-founded by Phil Knight and Bill Bowerman and has more than 50 years of history. Its Philip H. Knight Campus in Beaverton, Oregon, opened in 1990, covers 400 acres with more than 75 buildings, many named after its sponsored athletes, and hosts more than 11,000 employees.
Athletic footwear, apparel and equipment
PRProSeries is a US athletic equipment company founded in 1999 in Southern California. It makes Made-in-USA cold-therapy compression ice wraps used by athletes, physical therapists and pro teams, and was named official ice wrap of the ATP World Tour.
Cold-therapy ice wraps
WIWilson Sporting Goods makes equipment, apparel and accessories for racquet and team sports, among others. Its company page dates its founding to 1914 in Chicago and identifies Wilson as an Amer Sports brand. It lists ATEC, DeMarini, EvoShield and Louisville Slugger in its portfolio, while describing Luxilon as an exclusive distributor agreement rather than an owned brand. The brand's language about helping athletes perform is its own positioning, not a guarantee attached to a product.
Racquet and team sports equipment
10100% is a motocross-rooted brand whose logo appeared on factory racing gear in the early 1980s. It makes moto and MTB goggles such as the ARMEGA, ARmatic and ACCURI 2 lines, plus gloves, sport and lifestyle sunglasses and snow goggles, for riders in motocross, downhill, BMX, cycling, running and other sports.
Specialist sports equipment
