J.C. Newman ships the Home Run Humidor

Milwaukee Humidor Co. handcrafted 50 humidors from game-used professional baseball bats.

Tampa, FL – This week, J.C. Newman Cigar Co. is proud to announce that it is shipping the Home Run Humidors. For more than a century, J.C. Newman has celebrated the tradition of baseball and cigars. This legacy continues with the new Home Run Humidor. Handcrafted in America by Jason LeGear, owner and craftsman of Milwaukee Humidor Company, the Home Run Humidor is a series of 50 unique cigar humidors made from game-used professional baseball bats.  
“Baseball and cigars go hand-in-glove,” said fourth-generation owner Drew Newman.  “These unique humidors are shaped like home plate with five sides. They were handcrafted from broken bats provided by a professional baseball team. Due to league rules, I am not able to disclose the team.”

The humidors are made from American Maple and Birch wood and European Beech wood from the baseball bats. Walnut details, sourced in Wisconsin by LeGear, mimic the stitching of a baseball. LeGear carefully repurposed each game-used baseball bat into veneers in order to transform them into one-of-a-kind humidors. In 2023, he handcrafted The American All-Star Humidor from the 2011 NBA All-Star Game court. Last year, he created humidors for the Tampa Bay Lightning with game-used pucks.

Because the wood used in the bats varies, each of the 50 humidors is a unique work of art. Each humidor has a capacity of 100 to 125 cigars and includes 25 Tampa Smokers Toros and 5 Tampa Smokers baseball bats. Each humidor has a suggested retail price of $2,000.

“Any opportunity to incorporate handcraft and engineering into art is a challenge I am excited to step up to the plate for,” said LeGear. “The Home Run Humidor is the pinnacle of functional humidor design for me as a craftsman. The biggest challenge has been rendering baseball bats, a notoriously round object, into flat veneer, and then meticulously hand-seaming each individual piece into a cohesive whole, as well as designing a functional humidor of a non-standard shape. Every baseball and cigar enthusiast will be thrilled to be a part of the unique history and celebration of America’s national pastime every time they open the Home Run Humidor to enjoy a cigar.”

About J.C. Newman Cigar Co. Founded in 1895 by Julius Caeser Newman, J.C. Newman Cigar Company is the oldest family-owned premium cigar maker in America.  J.C. Newman rolls its El Reloj, Factory Throwouts, and Trader Jacks cigars by hand-operated, vintage cigar machines at its historic cigar factory in Tampa, Florida.  It also hand rolls its Brick House, Perla del Mar, El Baton, and Quorum cigars at the J.C. Newman PENSA cigar factory in Esteli, Nicaragua.  J.C. Newman’s Diamond Crown, MAXIMUS, Julius Caeser, and Black Diamond cigars are handmade by Tabacalera A. Fuente in the Dominican Republic.  With its longtime partners the Fuente family, the Newmans founded the Cigar Family Charitable Foundation, which supports low-income families in the Dominican Republic with education, health care, vocational training, and clean water.