Chattanooga News-Free Press archive photo via ChattanoogaHistory.com / Chattanooga Lookouts President Joe Engel, far right, is shown delivering bats to Chattanooga city officials in 1952. Engel and his business partners had started Joe Engel Bat Co. on Riverside Drive to make laminated, multipiece bats that were considered more durable than traditional one-piece bats.
It might be a small footnote in the colorful history of a Chattanooga baseball legend, but the Joe Engel Bat Co. was big news in 1952.
