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.
She cupped the wasps in her hand, the window frame shuddering beside her, as the storm sneaked in a draft to stir the dead wings, their stiffened weightlessness.
Someone laughed, but in a moment several passengers were up and banging on the doors and windows until a man in a uniform came down the ramp and peered in at us with his hands cupped at his temples.