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                                                                   Exhibit 10.21


            SIXTH AMENDMENT TO AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT

         This Amendment ("Amendment") is made as of the 15TH day of JUNE, 1999,
by and between ESCALADE, INCORPORATED (the "Company") and BANK ONE, INDIANA, NA
(the "Bank").

         WHEREAS, the Company and the Bank entered into an Amended and Restated
Credit Agreement dated May 31, 1996, as amended (the "Agreement"); and

         WHEREAS, the parties hereto desire to amend the Agreement as set forth
below:

         NOW, THEREFORE, the parties hereto agree as follows:

         1. Capitalized terms not defined herein shall have the meaning ascribed
in the Agreement.

         2. The definition of Revolving Loan Maturity Date in the Section
bearing the heading ACCOUNTING TERMS - DEFINTIONS of the Agreement is hereby
amended and restated to read as follows:

               -    "REVOLVING LOAN MATURITY DATE" means May 31, 2000, and
                    hereafter any subsequent date to which the Commitment may be
                    extended by the Bank pursuant to the terms of Section
                    2.a(iv).

         3. The first sentence of Section 2.a.(i) of the Agreement is hereby
amended and restated to read as follows:

               (i)  THE COMMITMENT - USE OF PROCEEDS. From the date of this
                    Agreement and until the Revolving Loan Maturity Date, the
                    Bank agrees to make Advances (collectively, the "Revolving
                    Loan") under a revolving line of credit from time to time to
                    the Company in amounts not exceeding Fifteen Million and
                    No/100 Dollars ($15,000,000.00) (the "Commitment") in the
                    aggregate at any time outstanding, provided that all
                    conditions of lending stated in Section 7 of this Agreement
                    as being applicable to the Revolving Loan have been
                    fulfilled at the time of each Advance.

         4. The Company represents and warrants that (a) the representations and
warranties contained in the Agreement are true and correct in all material
respects as of the date of this Amendment, (b) no condition, act or event which
could constitute an Event of Default under the Agreement exists, and (c) no
condition, event, act or omission has occurred, which, with the giving of notice
or passage of time, would constitute an Event of Default under the Agreement.

         5. The Company agrees to pay all fees and out-of-pocket disbursements
incurred by the Bank in connection with this Amendment, including legal fees
incurred by the Bank in the preparation, consummation, administration and
enforcement of this Amendment.

         6. This Amendment shall become effective only after it is fully
executed by the Company and the Bank and the Bank shall have received from the
Company the following documents:

                  (a) Sixth Amendment to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement
                  (b) Promissory Note Modification Agreement

Except as amended by this Amendment, the Agreement shall remain in full force
and effect in accordance with its terms.

         7. This Amendment is a modification only and not a novation. Except for
the above-quoted modification(s), the Agreement, any agreement or security
document, and all the terms and conditions thereof, shall be and remain in full
force and effect with the changes herein deemed to be incorporated therein. This
Amendment is to be considered attached to the Agreement and made a part thereof.
This Amendment shall not release or affect the liability of any guarantor,
surety or endorser of the Agreement or


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release any owner of collateral securing the Agreement. The validity, priority
and enforceability of the Agreement shall not be impaired hereby. To the extent
that any provision of this Amendment conflicts with any term or condition set
forth in the Agreement, or any agreement or security document executed in
conjunction therewith, the provisions of this Amendment shall supersede and
control. Company acknowledges that as of the date of this Amendment it has no
offsets with respect to all amounts owed by Company to Bank and Company waives
and releases all claims which it may have against Bank arising under the
Agreement on or prior to the date of this Amendment.

         8. The Company acknowledges and agrees that this Amendment is limited
to the terms outlined above, and shall not be construed as an amendment of any
other terms or provisions of the Agreement; The Company hereby specifically
ratifies and affirms the terms and provisions of the Agreement. Company releases
Bank from any and all claims which may have arisen, known or unknown, in
connection with the Agreement on or prior to the date hereof. This Amendment
shall not establish a course of dealing or be construed as evidence of any
willingness on the Bank's part to grant other or future amendments, should any
be requested.

         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have entered into this Amendment as of
the day and year first above written.

BANK ONE, INDIANA, NA                          ESCALADE, INCORPORATED



By: __________________________________         By:______________________________
    Andrew M. Cardimen, Vice President           John R. Wilson, Chief Financial
                                                 Officer