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Behind The Seams

By Alex Voetsch

Monday, April 13, 2009

Each season, Rawlings manufactures 720,000 baseballs for use in major league games. In March and September, 72 baseballs are sent to the Baseball Research Center at UMass Lowell, to make sure they're up to spec. The lab has been testing balls since 2000, when MLB first asked BRC director Dr. James Sherwood to help quell rumors of ball juicing. "Although Rawlings has an excellent quality control department," Sherwood says, "having an independent source test the balls lends a great deal of credibi ...

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