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1. John Northey Posted: June 21, 2022 at 05:54 PM (#6083144)Brought to you by CampingWorld.
Now they go through hundreds a game. A prices of muddying up two or three dozen balls becomes more problematic if you have to to 200-300.
I believe the umps did use to do this. I want to say there is a passage in an Angell book about this.
(Aside: after the 1956 season, Ruel's continuous 43-year career in baseball ended when he was fired as GM of the Detroit Tigers. He retired to Palo Alto, California. When he died of a heart attack in 1963, he was interred in Alta Mesa Memorial Park, where he keeps company with Steve Jobs, Shirley Temple, William Shockley, Tennessee Ernie Ford, and other luminaries.)
Several pitchers have complained about the balls this year, rejecting ball after ball because they have no grip.
Its like many jobs, if no-one checks it, it doesn't get done properly.
The most surreal part of experience was actually buying the mud. Because I wasn't an umpire, I had to provide a letter from the league authorizing me to buy mud.
Surely you can control the uniformity better at the manufacturing stage as opposed to 30 different club houses trying to achieve some common state of the ball?
I'm going to show my ignorance here, but why don't they just manufacture the balls to be less glossy and be more similar to a ball that has already been muddied?
From the SI story:
(I think your question is a very good one and I find the above passage kind of absurd. Some players will complain about everything; TFA shows that even the current balls don't make everyone happy.)
Jim Palmer.
Famously, the Japanese league does exactly that.
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