Pete Browning historic Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville. Browning was an important figure in baseball's history. In addition to his accomplishments as a player, which have made him a popular candidate for the Baseball Hall of Fame, his legacy is expressed in the game in other ways as well. Browning is probably best remembered today as the inspiration behind the Hillerich & Bradsby company's popular "Louisville Slugger" line of baseball bats. He was the first player to purchase a bat from the company, and they adopted the name a few years later to honor his patronage and capitalize on his fame. Browning's
Louisville Herald-Post Louisville Herald-Post The Louisville Herald-Post was a newspaper that was published in Louisville, Kentucky. "The Herald-Post" was created in 1925 from the merging of the old "Louisville Herald" and "Louisville Post" newspapers. Louisville financier James Buckner Brown sought to operate the paper as a counter to the positions of the Bingham newspapers the "Louisville Times" and the "Courier-Journal". The "Louisville Post"'s former editor Lewis Craig Humphrey became associate editor of the "Louisville Herald-Post". Brown invested nearly five million dollars in the combined newspapers. Brown lost his fortune in 1930 when his bank holding company BancoKentucky failed. After the BancoKentucky's failure,