Well, they use about 110,000 to 115,000 a year.
Rawlings is the official supplier... Retail Price of Balls (Approx): About $10 Per Ball...
But, you see, I don't know if they pay more of less for the balls, considering the enormous cost of shipping that many balls, but they probably pay less than retail...
$480,000
It varies from season to season.
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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.
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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.
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).
Costa Rica. 80,000 dozen MLB baseballs are produced each year.
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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.
In the MLB the baseballs that the umpire receives are tossed off to the bat boy and the home team (since they are supplying the baseballs) will usually sell them in their clubhouse or fan store.
An official MLB baseball can legally weigh between 5 and 5.25 ounces. So, using five ounces, ten baseballs = 10 x 5 = 50 ounces or 3.125 pounds.