Where It Started — A Baseball Player, A Gap in the Market, Miami 2017

My name is Michael Miranda. Most people who know me call me Mike. Some call me Mikey. I grew up playing baseball — from middle school through high school and into college, where I played for Manhattan College. The sport was not just something I did on weekends. It was the structure my life was built around for years.

After college I stayed close to the game by working in the baseball business, watching what players and families actually needed versus what the market was offering them. And the gap I kept seeing was the same everywhere: players were either overspending on expensive branded gear because the marketing told them they had to, or underspending on cheap equipment that fell apart before the season ended.

In October 2017, I registered The Baseball Club in Miami, Florida. TBC started as a baseball retail business — carrying the top brands in baseball and softball: Rawlings, Wilson, Champro, Markwort, Diamond, Mikasa, Franklin, and more. We shipped team uniforms, custom gear, and bulk orders to programs across the country and internationally. But selling other brands was never the end goal.

Building TBC — Manufacturing Our Own Gear

The moment TBC became something I am truly proud of was when we started manufacturing our own products. Not white-labeling somebody else's gear with our logo — actually designing, sourcing, and manufacturing products built specifically for the baseball community.

The first question I asked with every product was simple: what does a player or parent actually need, and why is nobody offering it at a price that makes sense?

That question led to the TBC Prime Series batting gloves — 100% original Cabretta leather at $44.88 a pair. The market charges $80 to $150 for genuine Cabretta leather. We charge $44.88 because that is what it should cost when you are building for the community and not for the margin. It led to the TBC Select Series — the same genuine Cabretta leather at $32.88, the lowest-priced genuine Cabretta batting glove on the market today.

It led to the TBC Premium Reversible Leather Belt — genuine leather, reversible glossy and matte finish, 15 colors, $24.88. It led to the TBC Toss Popper, the TBC USA Flag Snapback Hat, and the TBC Velo Batting Weight. More products are in the pipeline.

Every TBC product starts from the same place — a real problem in the baseball community that the market was either ignoring or overcharging for.

 

Miami, Baseball World, and Taking the Game Global

Miami has always been home. The store, the community, the roots of what TBC is — they all start here. Miami is a baseball city. The Latin influence on the game runs deep. The connection to the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Venezuela — baseball is not a seasonal sport in Miami. It is part of the culture year-round.

Beyond AllAthletesClub.com, I have also been part of Baseball World Miami — working on the youth baseball side of the sport, watching what young players and their families need, and staying close to the game at every level. And as TBC grew, so did our reach beyond Miami and beyond the United States.

In 2022, The Baseball Club partnered with Every Child Deserves a Chance to take baseball equipment to Uganda and help grow the sport there. TBC has since shipped equipment and built connections in Singapore, UAE, Malaysia, Dominican Republic, Hungary, and Austria. Baseball is a global game and the baseball community TBC serves extends well beyond American borders.

Who The Baseball Club Is Built For

TBC exists for three groups of people. They are the reason every product decision gets made the way it does.

The TBC Team — Dedicated, Global, and All-In

TBC is not a corporate brand. We are a dedicated team spread across the United States and internationally — each one of us all-in on building something that genuinely serves the baseball community.

What I am most proud of is not any single product or sales number. It is watching TBC grow from a one-person operation in Miami into a team that functions across the country and around the world, manufactures its own gear, and has players from youth travel ball through adult leagues trusting our products for their game. More products are coming. Every one of them follows the same rule — genuine quality at a price that respects the player and the family buying it.

Away from the baseball world, I have found a second obsession in distance running — competing in marathons and bringing the same discipline to the road that the game built in me. Baseball teaches you to show up every day, put in the work, and trust the process. It turns out that transfers to a lot of things in life.

AllAthletesClub.com — The Official Online Store of The Baseball Club

AllAthletesClub.com is the official online store of The Baseball Club. It is where you shop for TBC manufactured products and the full range of top baseball and softball brands we carry — Rawlings, Wilson, Champro, Markwort, Diamond, Mikasa, OC Sports, Franklin, and more.

The TBC manufactured product line is available exclusively through AllAthletesClub.com. You will not find the TBC Prime Series batting gloves, the TBC Reversible Leather Belt, or the TBC Toss Popper anywhere else. These are Baseball Club products, manufactured by The Baseball Club, sold through our official store.

Free shipping on all orders over $75. Ships from Miami, Florida. Team orders and bulk pricing available — contact us directly at 305-807-2458 or through the store chat.