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much to the astonishment of the writer.6,000,000 BALLS.How and Where Base Balls Are Made-Star tling Statistics of a Great Industry.[ N f w York Herald. 1The prices of halls are of wide range, be ginning at the schoolboy's plaything at theand ten cents each up to $t in regular graduated scale. The value for good service of course increases with the price demanded, those sola at less than 50 cents not being as durable as the more cosily specimens.At present there are only three firms in the United States who manufacture tlie higher grades of base halls, one being located in New York, another in Philadelphia and the third in Chit ago. The cheaper kinds are made in immense quantities oy firms in New York. Brooklyn. Boston, Ph l.tdelphia,Chicago, Cincinnati and St. Louis, and they supply small retail dealers in every town and village from Maine to California.One New York firm produces a horse hide covered ball, known as tbo “Boys’ Match,“ for 25 cents, and the same sum will secure the “Now Yora Regulation” and the “Boys’ League.” The two last named are half anounce heavier, hut are cover, d with sheepskin. At 5o cents tins firm oilers the “Bounding Rook” bait, made of selected stock, the fust being five ounces in weight and the second four ami a half. The “Amateur Red Dead” and the “Amateur Win e Dead” art* balls still higher in the scale, made with more cate and costing 75 cents. Next comes the professional class, led by the “Professional League Ball,” either white or ret I, ami having a gut. or Hax thread stitch, ail hand made amiregularly tested and selling at #1.50. The “American Association” is a ways w bite an«l fully ©dual to the League.though it sells at $1.25. As a special feature this house has recently introduced what they ra.l the “Seamless League.” the stitch onthe cover being what is technically knownas a blind one, so that when the thread is drawn tight the edges of the buckskin closetightly and conceal tit© stitches which holdthem together. Ibis ball costs $1.50. A smaller ball for boys, known as the “Pro bssonal Base Ball,” has on© ounce of moulded rubber as a core and is sewed withdouiilo linen thread, the red and whitevarieties selling at $1 each. Besides these there are the Practice,” at *jo cents; the “Young America.” at lo cents; the “Boy's Own,” at 15 cents, and the “O. K.,“ at five cents.Ihen a Chicago house makes a specialty of the five-ounce “Official League Ball.” it having been adopted by the National league, the International league, the Western association, the Lantern league, theCalifornia league, the Canadian league, the New England league, the Northwesternleague, the American co lege associationand the Central interstate league. Thisball lias been in use on professional fields for championship games during the past, to years. It is made wi h a so id« no-ounce rubber ball as a core, round which is wi apped the finest woollen yarn, am! completed with a cover of horse hide, the entire ball being made by hand in the most careful manner. A certain number of those halls are [a irshed prof* ssional «lul 8 without ost for the rccogn tion, and the remainder of their supply goes to them at the lowest wholes*’© figure. Each bad used in a championsh p game has to be carefully examined and weighed by the presidents of the respective leagues, and if up to the Standard mark they are duly stamped by these officials as “approved. Every ballmust be handed to the umpire in its originalcover, consisting of a square box, the ball inside being wrapped in tissue paper ami tinfoil. The price of the league ball is$1.50.fl lift ar,rvir hmicA hrna t.liA *‘Rnv«'
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Boston Weekly Globe
Boston, Massachusetts, US
Wed, Aug 01, 1888
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