Lengthening Home Runs Since 1989

 Learn how Ray DeMarini's passion for performance turned the bat industry on its head.

 

“I don’t do anything halfway. I’m either not interested or I’m obsessed. I’m just a freak.” — Ray DeMarini

In 1989 the aluminum bat game was flatlined. Top bat manufacturers weren’t innovating. Ray DeMarini, a 40-year-old playing on a company softball team, took notice and turned his obsession into a startup business. 

He realized there was a great opportunity to design a technical bat for the sophisticated ball player, and set out to create an earth-shattering high-performance bat. Partnering with his friend and engineer Mike Eggiman, they began operating DeMarini Sports out of a dirt-floored barn on a shoestring budget.

DeMarini Sports went on to deliver a series of industry firsts: from the first multi-wall bat and the first ever two-piece and hybrid bats, to the game-changing technology that is impacting baseball, fastpitch and slowpitch softball today.

Ray’s intensity and drive remain at the core of the company today. From a dirt-floored shack to today’s 80,000 sq. ft. industrial complex in Hillsboro, Oregon, DeMarini Sports keeps checking off milestones at a clip that would make Ray proud.

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