One of the new product lines indirectly referenced by Hillerich is the Louisville Slugger MLB Prime baseball bat, which the company says is the hardest bat to be swung thus far in Major League Baseball and boldly states is the biggest product innovation since the introduction of cupped bats in 1972.
The newspaper reported in January that six professional baseball players, including Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez, bought human growth hormone and other PEDs during 2009-12 from Biogenesis of America LLC.
Traded to the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1947, his final year in baseball, he tutored the rookie Ralph Kiner, who attributed much of his success as a slugger to Greenberg.