Supreme x Mizuno Aluminum Youth Bat
Supreme vs. Original
Supreme version
About the original
The Mizuno Aluminum Youth Bat is a 25-inch, 14.5-ounce tee ball bat with a single-piece aluminum alloy barrel and cushioned synthetic grip, sized for players roughly five to seven years old. Mizuno has manufactured baseball equipment since its founding in Osaka, Japan in 1906 by brothers Rihachi and Rizo Mizuno. The company supplies bats, gloves, and cleats at every level of play, from Japanese youth leagues to Nippon Professional Baseball and MLB. Mizuno is also one of the few manufacturers still making pro-grade gloves by hand in Japan. The Supreme SS2014 collaboration ran early in Supreme's sporting goods program, adding co-branded graphics along the barrel of an otherwise stock youth bat.
About Mizuno
Mizuno Corporation is a Japanese sportswear and sporting goods manufacturer founded in 1906 in Osaka by brothers Rihachi and Rizo Mizuno as Mizuno Brothers, Ltd. Rihachi, a former kimono shop worker, had seen a baseball game in Kyoto at eighteen and opened a Western sundries shop that began selling order-made athletic wear in 1907 and manufacturing baseballs and gloves in 1913. He was inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 1971. Mizuno now produces baseball, golf, running, volleyball, and tennis equipment used by professional athletes worldwide. Supreme has collaborated with Mizuno on co-branded baseball equipment and apparel.
