Vintage 1940s Amyx Manufacturing Co. Wood Baseball Bat Ash 33 West Plains, MO
Vintage 1940s Amyx Manufacturing Co. Wood Baseball Bat Ash 33 West Plains, MO. Please Be sure to see the photos, directly below the Description. From the 1940's to early 1950's Hard to find, early Ozarks-produced Ash wood Baseball Bat By the Amyx Manufacturing Co. West Plains, Missouri Center brand is a bit tough to make out.. "Model 200" (i have included a couple close-ups). Barrel end is branded: "Professional Model". Measures: 33" in Length & nearly 2 7/8" wide, at widest end of Bat appears to be small repaired surface crack at Grip end, under Tape there is a small'tack' nail at Grip-knob (see close-ups) Very minor & hardly noticeable. Bat is still very solid & sturdy it Displays Great!
Please refer to the pictures below, for all the specifics.. Missouri Newspaper article January 8,1950.. They're telling around this sports minded Howell County community how Stan Musial broke a terrific batting slump a couple of seasons back because of a West Plains Company which packs a wallop. So the story goes, the Cardinal slugging great couldn't have hit a medicine ball tossed shot-put style by Tallulah Bankhead. And then, of course, Stan decided to switch bats.
His pick: A shillelagh fashioned by the Amyx Manufacturing Company of West Plains, fourth largest bat makers in the world. The result: A mighty wallop, on the first pitch, naturally, which was reported to have lit in the general vicinity of the Mississippi River. Whether that Bill Sternish tale is true, or whether that West Plains built bat had anything to do with Stan's homer, the Amyxes won't say.But if it is, that was the official start of Amyx Manufacturing Company's war clubs breaking into the big time of major league baseball. And now, what with comfortable orders being sent out to such clubs as the Browns, Cards, Tigers, and Cubs, the father and son team is planning on keeping its bats up there from here on out. The story of Ozarks-produced bats began back in 1943 when young Orin Amyx and his father, Dr. Amyx, a dentist and mayor of West Plains, started a small plant for manufacturing juvenile furniture. They were novices from the word go.
And tragedy struck the new venture almost from the outset. Fire destroyed everything, plant and materials, only three months after they started production. But they decided to go on and soon constructed an entirely new plant. Then the Amyxes received a small order for bats because'they were so hard to get during the war,' young Amyx explains. Our first ones looked so good, we've been at it ever since.- Year: 1940's
- Original/Reproduction: Original
- Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
