Last wooden lacrosse stick maker Tom Becket to retire

The last one in Great Britain, maybe, but they are still being made in the U.S., and probably Canada too.

I though, "what about CranBarry?" but their website doesn't show any wooden sticks. Players for the women's lacrosse team at Virginia's St. Stephen's and St. Agnes used to start out on wooden sticks. I guess that's a bygone tradition now too.

Last wooden lacrosse stick maker Tom Becket to retire

8 November 2014 Last updated at 07:51 ET

The last wooden lacrosse stick maker in the UK is to retire, bringing to an end a century of production in Salford.

Hattersleys in Eccles has made wooden sticks for 102 years, but will switch to plastic-only production when Tom Becket downs tools at the end of 2014.

Mr Becket has been bending and shaping the hickory sticks for 50 years.

Director Matthew Rigby said Tom's last run, which had already sold out, would be the "final production" in Britain.

Mr Becket has crafted wooden lacrosse sticks in Eccles for 50 years



Lacrosse is a Native American game, a version of which has been played for about 900 years. In the 1600s, French Missionaries called it "La Crossier" after the stick which resembled a cross