first of all it is not just pumped full of air, if you cut a baseball in half you would notice that there is several diffrent layers.In the middle it is rubber layer that they call the pill about 3 inches wide then it is special machines then wind various layers of yarn around the "pill" Layer one contains 121 yards of four-ply, blue-gray wool yarn. The second layer contains 45 yards of three-ply, white wool yarn. The next layer consists of 53 yards of three-ply, blue-gray wool yarn. The final layer features 150 yards of polyester-cotton blend white yarn.Once the "pill" is tightly wrapped with these layers of yarn, the entire thing is coated with rubber cement before it gets covered with two pieces of white cowhide. The covers of baseballs are hand-stitched using 88 inches of red cotton thread to create exactly 216 raised stitches.
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