At one time the balls were so valuable that the winning team got to keep the ball. It could not have been much of a prize since the goal was to use one ball for the entire game. Even foul balls were thrown back into play. That is not the case today. today, the typical lifespan of a major league baseball is fewer than six pitches. On average, each team needs at least 9,000 balls per season. Multiply that by 30 teams and that is 27,000 balls per season. Each ball must be rubbed with Lena Blackburne's mud before each game. each team only uses a certain amount of the mud on the teams baseballs. The change in the rules in recent years have helped the flow of the game before we had to wait for the fans to throw the ball back before they could continue to play nowadays teams have thousands of balls to use and don't need to worry about losing them. this also has helped major league batters because since there is no worry about losing balls fields were made smaller and it was easier to hit home runs even shortstops and the occasional pitcher can hit one out. the change in rules have changed the way the game will be played for the next century. players start hitting more home runs, games get more interesting, more fans means more money. The change of rules have made the teams far more money than they would of by saving a few baseballs from leaving the field.
This book interests me a lot, I like baseball and all this book talks about is baseball, Americas favor tie past time. This book is interesting to me for two reasons it talks about all the best players and its about the best sport in the world. I have read his other book, "how to catch a major league baseball", and it was very good but this book talks more about the evolution of the game and that gets me into his book because I get to learn from it while enjoying it.
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