CEO and co-founder Kurt Ainsworth considers Marucci one of Baton Rouge’s best-kept secrets.
That secret? Local start-up Marucci supplies high-quality wood bats for more than a third of baseball’s Major League teams.
Ainsworth, who pitched at LSU before joining the big leagues with the San Francisco Giants and Baltimore Orioles, was training to recover from an injured arm alongside his college teammate Joe Lawrence. Working with LSU trainer Jack Marucci, they discovered Marucci’s hobby of making wood bats by hand in his garage.