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The Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory, with its famous 'Big Bat' entrance. Factoid: The bat is an exact-scale replica of Babe Ruth's R43 bat that Louisville Slugger designed to the specifications requested by the immortal New York Yankees slugger in the early 1920s. Image courtesy of Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory.

Louisville Slugger exhibit features Lego stadiums

Catherine Saunders-Watson
Catherine Saunders-Watson
The Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory, with its famous 'Big Bat' entrance. Factoid: The bat is an exact-scale replica of Babe Ruth's R43 bat that Louisville Slugger designed to the specifications requested by the immortal New York Yankees slugger in the early 1920s. Image courtesy of Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory.
The Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory, with its famous ‘Big Bat’ entrance. Factoid: The bat is an exact-scale replica of Babe Ruth’s R43 bat that Louisville Slugger designed to the specifications requested by the immortal New York Yankees slugger in the early 1920s. Image courtesy of Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) – A baseball-themed exhibit built entirely from Legos is attracting adults and children to the Louisville Slugger Factory and Museum.

The exhibit occupies a large space inside the museum and is filled with baseball-themed art, including a 58,000-piece model of Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs.

There are also portraits of famous major league players built out of Legos, and a model of Milwaukee’s Miller Park with a retractable roof.

Curator Nathan Stalvey says the “Big Leagues, Little Bricks” exhibit was created just for the Slugger Museum.

Cameron Crossley, an 11-year-old from Pembroke Pines, Fla., was visiting the museum last week and was impressed by the sculptures. Crossley says he would love to have a job building Lego creations when he grows up.

The exhibit runs through Labor Day.

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The Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory, with its famous 'Big Bat' entrance. Factoid: The bat is an exact-scale replica of Babe Ruth's R43 bat that Louisville Slugger designed to the specifications requested by the immortal New York Yankees slugger in the early 1920s. Image courtesy of Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory.
The Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory, with its famous ‘Big Bat’ entrance. Factoid: The bat is an exact-scale replica of Babe Ruth’s R43 bat that Louisville Slugger designed to the specifications requested by the immortal New York Yankees slugger in the early 1920s. Image courtesy of Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory.
A minutely detailed Lego re-creation of Miller Park, home of the Milwaukee Brewers, from the Big Leagues Little Bricks exhibit at the Louisville Slugger Museum. Image courtesy of Louisville Slugger Factory & Museum and Lego Big Leagues Little Bricks.
A minutely detailed Lego re-creation of Miller Park, home of the Milwaukee Brewers, from the Big Leagues Little Bricks exhibit at the Louisville Slugger Museum. Image courtesy of Louisville Slugger Factory & Museum and Lego Big Leagues Little Bricks.