CALEDONIA -- Employees of Miken Sports, maker of the baseball helmets used by Major League Baseball players, have been notified that the manufacturing plant will close in the next 18 to 24 months ...

Download this article as a .PDF. Back in 1995, a business colleague challenged me to design a high-performance composite softball bat. At the time, hollow aluminum bats were the most common, with ...

CALEDONIA, Minn. — Employees of Miken Sports, maker of the baseball helmets used by Major League Baseball players, have been notified that the manufacturing plant will close in the next 18 to 24 ...

Minnesota facility that makes MLB helmets, softball bats to close Employees of Miken Sports have been notified that the manufacturing plant will close in the next 18 to 24 months.

Miken Sports, a manufacturer in Caledonia, Minnesota, that makes Major League Baseball helmets and bats for youth sports, will wind down operations as its owner moves jobs to Missouri and China.

Miken Sports, the company that makes the helmets used by MLB players as well as composite softball bats, will move its production to China and Missouri, CBS News reports.

A year and half ago, Rawlings sent a shudder through the community after announcing that it was closing its Caledonia plant, which makes MLB baseball helmets as well as composite bats used by ...

CALEDONIA, Minn. - Miken Sports, a Caledonia company that makes high-performance softball and baseball bats from carbon fiber and fiberglass, has been purchased by K2 Inc. of Carlsbad, Calif., which ...

The Miken Sports plant has been cranking out sporting gear since 1999, including batting helmets for MLB teams, hockey sticks and composite bats used in softball.

Bats: they’re here, and there are so many of them, in fact, that it was picked up on weather radar, and experts say swarms like the ones seen on radar this past weekend could get even bigger.

Taking flight in the rain is only worthwhile for a bat when the energy it can ingest replaces that expended by flight. Published - May 16, 2011 07:08 pm IST Read Comments ...