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Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization, the oldest of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada.

A total of 30 teams now play in the National League (NL) and American League (AL), with 15 teams in each league.

The NL and AL operated as separate legal entities from 1876 and 1901 respectively.

After cooperating but remaining legally separate entities since 1903, the leagues merged into a single organization led by the Commissioner of Baseball in 2000.

The organization also oversees Minor League Baseball, which comprises about 240 teams affiliated with the Major League clubs.

With the World Baseball Softball Confederation, MLB manages the international World Baseball Classic tournament.

Hillerich & Bradsby Company (H&B) is a company located in Louisville, Kentucky that produces the famous Louisville Slugger baseball bat.

The Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory in downtown Louisville features a retrospective of the product and its use throughout baseball history.

H&B also makes baseball gloves, golf clubs, golf gloves and other equipment (under the PowerBilt brand).

A baseball bat is a smooth wooden or metal club used in the sport of baseball to hit the ball after it is thrown by the pitcher.

By regulation it may be no more than in diameter at the thickest part and no more than long.

Although historically bats approaching were swung, today bats of are common, topping out at to.

Aluminium or aluminum (in North American English) is a chemical element in the boron group with symbol Al and atomic number 13.

It is a silvery-white, soft, nonmagnetic, ductile metal.

By mass, aluminium makes up about 8% of the Earth's crust; it is the third most abundant element after oxygen and silicon and the most abundant metal in the crust, though it is less common in the mantle below.

Aluminium metal is so chemically reactive that native specimens are rare and limited to extreme reducing environments.

Instead, it is found combined in over 270 different minerals.

The chief ore of aluminium is bauxite.

A baseball is a ball used in the sport of the same name, baseball.

The ball features a rubber or cork center, wrapped in yarn, and covered, in the words of the Official Baseball Rules "with two strips of white horsehide or cowhide, tightly stitched together." It is in circumference, (in diameter), and masses from.

The yarn or string used to wrap the baseball can be up to one mile (1.6 km) in length.

Some are wrapped in a plastic-like covering.