Mattingly Sports (Company)

Mattingly Sports Inc.

Type	Private
Founded	2005
Founder(s)	Don Mattingly, Jim Wells, Skip Shaw
Headquarters	Shelton, CT, United States
Key people	Don Mattingly founder
Products	Sporting Goods
Divisions	Baseball/Softball
Website	http://www.mattinglybaseball.com

Mattingly Sports is a baseball and softball equipment company launched by Don Mattingly in 2005, based primarily around the patented V-Grip baseball and softball bats. After watching his kids and their friends struggle to maintain the proper hitting grip, Don, along with co-inventor Jim Wells, created the V-Grip as a way to ensure the proper alignment of the hands and to keep the bat out in the hitter's fingertips. A third founder, Skip Shaw, was brought in to grow the company into a meaningful player in the baseball and softball equipment marketplace.^[1] The V-Grip bats have been approved for game play by all of the major, non-professional leagues and associations including Little League Baseball, Babe Ruth (including Ripken Baseball), Pony League, Dixie Youth, AABC, ASA, USSSA, the National Federation of High Schools, and the NCAA.^[2]

References

1. ^ http://www.ctpost.com/default/article/Mattingly-has-a-firm-grip-on-teaching-young-105781.php
2. ^ http://www.mattinglybaseball.com/aboutus.html

External links

• http://www.mattinglybaseball.com/index.cfm
• http://www.facebook.com/mattinglysports