First a little ball of cork is wrapped in a rubber shell. Then a handful of thick woolen yarn is wrapped around the rubber and that is held in place with a layer of cotton thread. The final outer layer is made of white leather, which is hand-stitched with thread.
Batter up!
Most major league baseball bats are made of wood. The barrel of the bat has to be perfectly round.
Inside story
Here are all the parts that go into a baseball. A baseball weighs about 5 ounces.
Play ball!
- More than two hundred years ago, the early settlers played an English ball game called rounders. This is probably how baseball began.
- Thousands of years ago, in Mexico, people played a game just like basketball. They called it pok-ta-pok.
