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Kurt Ainsworth

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first: 2024-12-16
most recent: 2024-12-16
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“He was. He was. And he's from New Orleans, Louisiana, so I always woke up every morning, checked the boxcour to see how Will Clark did. He was always my hero as a kid. And I literally felt he was talking to me that day. Every paper I think I did for a school paper as a kid, what do you want to be when you grow up? I always wanted to be a major league baseball player. And, you know, all the teachers would kind of laugh at me and say, nah, nobody really. And again, I was small on my team It's really hard. But I always believed I could do it.”
2024-12-16 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Marucci Sports - Kurt Ainsworth · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I remember in Little League we had Will Clark came and spoke to our Little League one year and he said, one of you in the crowd is going to play in the major leagues.”
2024-12-16 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Marucci Sports - Kurt Ainsworth · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's correct. And I literally couldn't speak. All of our bats in the market, we're going to have to recall and we have the hottest bat right now in the market. And I remember walking back to my hotel thinking the company was done. It was a multimillion dollar hit for a company that didn't have money.”
2024-12-16 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Marucci Sports - Kurt Ainsworth · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“2012, we were having a big coaches party. And I remember our engineer saying, hey, the NCAA just told me that they're going to decertify our bats. They tested some bats and they said the bats in the field were testing higher than the limit.”
2024-12-16 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Marucci Sports - Kurt Ainsworth · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT