The bats are still a favorite with major leaguers. Sponsor Message Ron Vander Groef, Rawlings' plant manager, flips through his current roster of players, which includes Andrew Romine, Rob ...

Those blasts all came from bats made by Adirondack, a Dolgeville company purchased in the 1970s by Rawlings, the sporting goods giant. Before aluminum bats, before machines that can do with ...