Between eight to ten dozen balls (96 to 120) are supplied for each game. Between all 30 teams, Major League Baseball goes through about 200,000 balls each year for regular and postseason games.
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24. However, they usually provide 8 to 12.
There was an episode of "Dirty Jobs" on the Discover Chanel about this. It is not the umpire that does it. It is a person that works for the home team of any given game. It is a very particular type of natural mud but i do not remember where it comes from. I have heard they prepare about 60 balls per game.
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The Browns moved to Baltimore after the 1953 season and became the Baltimore Orioles.
The first "professional" baseball team was the Cincinnati Red Stockings that was formed as early as 1876 a few years before and organized professional baseball league was formed.