NASCAR Bats

NASCAR is one of the most viewed professional sports in terms of television ratings in the United States. In fact, professional football is the only sport in the United States to hold more viewers than NASCAR. Internationally, NASCAR races are broadcast in over 150 countries.

NASCAR drivers coming to Kentucky next week will be hit with a Louisville tradition.

The Sprint Cup series is really like the big league of auto racing, and a better gift for the folks associated with this race than the official bat of the major leagues, and it's such an important event coming to Kentucky as well according to the executive director of the Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory.

More than 300 special-edition NASCAR Louisville Slugger bats were rolled out of the Slugger factory. They feature the logo for the inaugural Sprint Cup race at the Kentucky Speedway, which takes place July 9. The bats have the names of the drivers they'll be given to engraved on the side.

Along with drivers, official team members and executives will be given the special bats. They will not be sold to the public.

Surely these will be most collectables this season.