{"id":19422,"date":"2025-06-16T07:59:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/?p=19422"},"modified":"2025-05-31T07:35:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T11:35:40","slug":"a-different-baseball-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/a-different-baseball-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"A Different Baseball Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Louisville to celebrate Brian&#8217;s birthday, the first stop on the agenda was the iconic Louisville Slugger Museum and Factory. We got up close and personal with some iconic bats, and those being produced for sluggers big and small. We even got a mini bat to take home and live out some MLB dreams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1875\" height=\"2500\" data-id=\"19439\" src=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1-sm-2025-05-24-09.25.15-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19439\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1-sm-2025-05-24-09.25.15-rotated.jpg 1875w, http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1-sm-2025-05-24-09.25.15-900x1200.jpg 900w, http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1-sm-2025-05-24-09.25.15-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1-sm-2025-05-24-09.25.15-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, 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http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2-sm-2025-05-24-09.33.18-900x1200.jpg 900w, http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2-sm-2025-05-24-09.33.18-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2-sm-2025-05-24-09.33.18-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2-sm-2025-05-24-09.33.18-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2-sm-2025-05-24-09.33.18-630x840.jpg 630w, http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2-sm-2025-05-24-09.33.18-960x1280.jpg 960w, http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2-sm-2025-05-24-09.33.18-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1875px) 100vw, 1875px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Holding Cal&#8217;s bat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1875\" height=\"2500\" data-id=\"19437\" src=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/3-sm-2025-05-24-09.30.39-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19437\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/3-sm-2025-05-24-09.30.39-rotated.jpg 1875w, http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/3-sm-2025-05-24-09.30.39-900x1200.jpg 900w, http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/3-sm-2025-05-24-09.30.39-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1875px) 100vw, 1875px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">His hero<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1875\" data-id=\"19432\" src=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/4-sm-2025-05-24-09.42.41.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19432\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A legend<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1875\" data-id=\"19434\" src=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/5-sm-2025-05-24-10.11.37.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19434\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/5-sm-2025-05-24-10.11.37.jpg 2500w, http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/5-sm-2025-05-24-10.11.37-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Among the bats<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1875\" data-id=\"19433\" src=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/6-sm-2025-05-24-10.20.02.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19433\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/6-sm-2025-05-24-10.20.02.jpg 2500w, http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/6-sm-2025-05-24-10.20.02-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Loose in the factory<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1875\" height=\"2500\" data-id=\"19435\" src=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/7-sm-2025-05-24-10.30.38-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19435\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Blinged out bat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1875\" height=\"2500\" data-id=\"19436\" src=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/8-sm-2025-05-24-10.31.17-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19436\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">O&#8217;s favorite<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1875\" data-id=\"19431\" src=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/9-sm-2025-05-24-11.13.03.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19431\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/9-sm-2025-05-24-11.13.03.jpg 2500w, http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/9-sm-2025-05-24-11.13.03-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Trying out the mini bats<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Louisville to celebrate Brian&#8217;s birthday, the first stop on the agenda was the iconic Louisville Slugger Museum and Factory. We got up close and personal with some iconic bats, and those being produced for sluggers big and small. We even got a mini bat to take home and live out some MLB dreams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[140,20],"class_list":["post-19422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-picture","tag-louisville","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19422"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19440,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19422\/revisions\/19440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}