Hundreds and even thousands of bats are used in an MLB Season. One reason for that is because of broken bats. But another reason for that is because a lot of professional hitters are very superstitious players. They will use a bat once and depending on what happens, they may never use it again.
It varies from season to season.
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Official league balls are used in all major league games, regular season and playoffs. Baseballs used in the playoffs and World Series have special imprints on them to designate the event(s).
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rawlings
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There are 162 games in the regular season of MLB.
Hundreds and thousands of bats
Rawlings has the MLB contract to produce their baseballs. Their manufacturing takes place in Costa Rica and the balls are stitched by hand by factory workers.
In a way baseballs are recycled in the MLB because when a baseball gets dirt on it the umpire throws it to the bat boy who places it in a bucket of baseballs which are going to be used for next games batting practice.
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The only factory authorized by MLB to make their baseballs is one owned by the Rawlings Sporting Goods Company in Turrialba, Costa Rica. Rawlings has the contract to supply MLB with baseballs through 2013.