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Old Tue Sep 01, 2009, 06:24pm
David Emerling David Emerling is offline
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Originally Posted by RPatrino View Post
I can't say when it became standard practice, but I suspect a major league pitcher worth his salt can do nasty things with a dirty baseball. Besides, they have 100 of them to use, why not use them all.
You just KNOW the ball cannot possibly be all scuffed up in most of the instances when they replace it.