EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) \u2014 When employees at Overfly Sports crafted a baseball bat for St. Louis Cardinals rookie Joshua B\u00e1ez earlier this year, they never thought he would go on to accomplish the unimaginable!<\/p>\n
Overfly Sports is a custom bat-making company that\u2019s based in El Paso. It manufactures more tan 30,000 baseball bats every year for players in the major and minor leagues.<\/p>\n
It has locations in the United States and Mexico. The majority are made in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, while a smaller percentage is produced in El Paso.<\/p>\n
The shop has made custom baseball bats for B\u00e1ez for six years throughout his time in the minor leagues.<\/p>\n
When it was his turn to debut in the majors, he wanted a special engraving on his bat.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe engraved major league debut on the knob. And that one bat, one bat, was sent to him about two weeks prior to his debut. So he held on to it and was saving it for that day,\u201d Kurt Gross, owner of Overfly Sports, said.<\/p>\n
Gross never imagined B\u00e1ez’s baseball bat would be in the national spotlight!<\/p>\n
During a thrilling game against the Chicago Cubs, the 23-year-old went on to make history. B\u00e1ez became the first player in MLB history to hit three homers in his first three at-bats.<\/p>\n
The family was at dinner when the game unfolded as text messages started trickling in.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur group chat within the company started blowing up,\u201d Gross said. <\/p>\n
The accomplishment is one the Gross family still can\u2019t fully comprehend.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, it was amazing to see that come to fruition. To see him succeed the way that he did in a historic manner in his debut was beyond anyone’s imagination,\u201d Gross added.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe couldn’t really believe it. Like, it was kind of like, is this is this fake? It\u2019s almost\u2014I mean, the odds of that are unreal,\u201d added Will Gross, an employee at Overfly Sports.<\/p>\n
While the specific baseball bat B\u00e1ez used was manufactured in the Mexican facility, Overfly Sports is proud to say it played a small part in making history happen.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’re proud to be making major league bats here in El Paso; that’s something that we don’t take for granted. We love telling everybody that we’re here and we’re from El Paso, and it’s just a little bit of history that’s made in Major League Baseball. But we’re proud to say that it was done here in El Paso,\u201d Kurt said.<\/p>\n
B\u00e1ez’s thrilling rookie season came to a premature end thanks to an injury. Kurt said B\u00e1ez’s baseball bat won\u2019t be going to the Hall of Fame because the player decided to keep it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) \u2014 When employees at Overfly Sports crafted a baseball bat for St. Louis Cardinals…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1816,138,140,139,155764,155765,34773],"class_list":["post-453401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-baseball","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-joshua-baez","tag-overfly-sports","tag-st-louis-cardinals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}