Yesterday we had a surprise at Louisville Slugger. Craig Biggio stopped in to say thank you for making his bats for the past 20 years. He personally thanked every worker on my floor and then handed out autographed "3000 hit" bats and some game issued autographed bats to the workers. Our head turner made him a H176 using the old hand turning lathe. He loved it and said he'd use it in tonight's game in Cincinnati.

That's the first time that anyone can remember a player coming to the factory and doing something like that. It's also one of the nicest things I've seen a player ever do.