The Strike Four, the Evolution of Baseball Podcast

In the 18 seventies, balls were not so standardized as they later became. This left a lot of room for livelier or deader balls using slightly different materials and winding the yarn looser or tighter. Manufacturers advertised their balls as lively or dead. That's a admirable they just put it out there. They didn't leak it in a memo that was then reported on or anything. The color of the ball was completely unregulated. And he also notes in response to our discussion of color coated livelyd dead balls.