history of the baseball
TRANSCRIPT
By: Rhett Dempsey and Hunter Pappan
*There will be a quiz at the end!*
The 1st Baseball• The cover of the 1st
baseball is made of horsehide.
• The core was rubber and string wrapped.
• It weighed about 5 ¾ ounces.
• The circumference was about 9 ¾ inches.
How the Baseball has Changed
• The next baseball was a little different than the first.
• It weighed 5 ½ ounces.
• The circumference was 9 ½ inches.
• The 1900’s baseball was different too.
• It weighs less and its smaller.
• It weighed 5 ounces.
• It’s circumference was 9 ¼ inches.
1900’s Baseball
The Modern Baseball
• Today’s baseball is perfectly round.
• The inside is rubber, cork, or maybe both.
• It weighs 5 ¼ ounces.
• It’s 9 ¼ inches in circumference.
• The string or yarn can be 1 mile long.
• 3 inches in diameter.
• The outside is made of cowhide.
The Modern Baseball
Inside a Baseball
• Inside a baseball you will see the core, yarn, and stitches.
• The red and black substance is rubber.
How it’s MadeFirst they start out with a small cork.
Then they pour a latex adhesive into a drum.
Next they loop ply wool around the cork.
After that they put another layer of wool on.
Then they put a 3rd layer on.
Last they put a wool on that is much lighter.
It takes a week to make a MLB baseball!
“The Mud”• The Major League
uses the mud from a lake to make the baseballs less slick.
• They do this because a hitter was killed by a wild pitch.
• They started using it in 1938.
• Only the Major League knows where they get the mud from.
How many stitches are there?
• There are 108 stitches in a modern baseball.
• For the last stitch they go through the middle of the baseball and cut the string.
The Farthest Hit
• The farthest hit in the MLB is 634 ft.
• Mickey Mantle was the player who hit the baseball.
The Fastest Throw
• The fastest throw was 107.9 mph.
• The throw was a pitch by Bob Feller in Griffith Stadium (Texas Rangers Ballpark).
• He was born in Van Meter, Iowa.
President’s Pitch
• For 100 years president’s have been throwing the first pitch for the Washington D.C. team.
• This year Barack Obama threw the first pitch on April 5 for the Washington Nationals.
• William Howard Taft threw the first pitch 100 years ago.
• It’s a tradition for every president to threw the first pitch.
The Most Expensive Baseball
• Mark McGwire’s 70th home run was sold for $3,005,000!!!
• The baseball was hit on September 27, 1998 for a record of the most home runs in a season.
• That record was broken by Barry Bonds in 2001.
The Most Expensive BaseballSigned
• Babe Ruth has the most expensive single signed baseball.
• It’s graded 9.5 out of 10!!!
• The cost of the baseball is $150,000!!!
• Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe have the record for the dual signed baseball and for the most expensive baseball.
• The cost was $191,200!!!
• It was sold on May 6, 2006
The Most Expensive Dual Baseball Signed
How many baseballs they use a game?
• No one really knows how many baseballs are at 1 game!
How many baseballs do they use a season?
• The MLB use approximately 113,500 baseballs in a season.
Credits• Thanks to these websites, we have all the facts
right now!• http://www4.stat.ncsu.edu/~reiland/baseball.html• http://www.baseball-almanac.com/feats/
art_hr.shtml• http://www.fogdog.com/fog-the-history-of-the-
baseball--bg-527303.html• http://www.19cbaseball.com/19th-century-
baseball.html#1859• http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_baseballs_ar
e_used_during_a_MLB_game• http://baseballrubbingmud.com/• http://www.hrsinformer.com/wp-content/uploads/
2009/11/inside-a-baseball.jpg
TIME FOR THE QUIZ!!!
Try to answer them based off our PowerPoint
GOOD LUCK!!!!
How much did the first baseball weigh?
5 ¾ oz.
5 oz.
5 ¼ oz.
Who threw the fastest pitch?
Jackie Robinson
Bob Feller
Cliff Lee
About how many baseballs do they use a season?
500
113,500
200,000
How fast was the fastest pitch?
106.9
107.9
105.3
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