Bata, Equatorial Guinea | Bata | Converse (shoe company) | Bata Shoes | Red Shoe Diaries | Bally Shoe | Richard Reid (shoe bomber) | shoe | Milorad Bata Mihailović | Niels Shoe Meulman | Jan Antonín Baťa | Athletic shoe | Tomáš Baťa | Baťa | White shoe firm | West Coast Shoe Company | Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe | Thomas J. Bata | There was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe | Spectator shoe | Shoe studs | Shoe polish | shoe polish | Shoe fetishism | Shoe-banging incident | Pointe shoe | Plimsoll shoe | Platform shoe | Pino "Little Shoe" Greco | Oxford shoe |
It was named in honor of Tomáš Baťa (1876-1932), a world-renowned Czech businessman founder of the Bata Shoe Organization.
In 1942, he joined the brass band at Bata Shoe Company, Bata Nagar in Kolkata, under its Hungarian conductor Joseph Newman.