Louisville Slugger Field of the famous Louisville Slugger baseball bat, and the Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory is located several blocks further down Main Street. The stadium is accessible from I-64, I-65, and I-71. The Louisville Bats and the City of Louisville broke ground on Louisville Slugger Field on November 13, 1998. In front of an estimated crowd of 1,000, Mayor Jerry Abramson and Governor Paul E. Patton cut out the first home plate before they broke the ground with Bats President Gary Ulmer and other officials. The stadium hosted the 2008 Triple-A All-Star Game, in which the Pacific Coast League All-Stars defeated
Slugger Ann work was inspired by the people who came to Slugger Ann's. Slugger Ann gave Candy Darling a job working as a barmaid. She got her nickname "Slugger Ann" from working as a taxi dancer in the 1920s and 1930s in New York City. If a man would attempt to grope her while she was dancing, she would swing at him. This behavior would come in handy when she opened a bar on the corner of 12th and 2nd Avenue, near St. Mark's Church in the early 1950s. She could be found everyday at the bar. She lived in an apartment