Players swing for the fences with bats that begin in Bernie

Sunday, September 1, 2013

BERNIE, Mo. -- It's a little known fact in the area that many baseball bats used by Major League Baseball players have their start in Bernie, a town of about 2,000 people in Stoddard County.

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