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Sports & Manufacturing

How Baseball and Football Gear Is Made

Featuring Champro Sports on Now We Know TV! with Steve Guttenberg.

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Champro Sports

Youth sports run on gear that parents rarely think about until it fails. Champro Sports, a family-owned company outside Chicago, supplies teams with equipment built to take a season of abuse at a price a league can afford.

Inside a major sports equipment operation, the episode looks at what value means when the product protects a kid.

From the segment How team sports equipment gets designed, tested, and delivered season after season.

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