Baseball trivia

This is not about the game, but the actual ball. I imagine that most folks have a pretty good idea of what the stitching on a baseball looks like. It’s a stitch used for sewing two pieces of leather that abut without overlapping. Here is an example (it’s a can Koozie that I made from a kit.)


In researching the stitch, I learned that all baseballs are stitched by hand. The reason is that no one has yet deigned a machine that can do it.

Here’s a little video of a real baseball being sewn.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iyuJVWxFuUQ

 

"She said, 'a butt.'"

 

Thank you for the video, where were you in the 50s when I was always curious about how they did that.

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She was busy working on her new TV career of course.
(Bugs Bunny's TV debut was in 1955.)

 

Sorry, but I wasn’t born until 1959.

 

That explains the comment "Man, he tore the leather off that baseball!"

 

I used to love that song that led into the Bugs Bunny show. Man, the Herman's Hermits did great with that!(You never read that lol).

 

Well, at least I can pretend that I never read that.