It varies from season to season.
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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.
Major League Baseball uses about 160,000 baseballs in a season. the lifespan of 1 is 7 pitches. the average baseball lasts 9 pitches. That's as close as I can come. OK. Let's say the average baseball lasts 9 pitches. Let's also say the average inning lasts 30 pitches (15 per half inning). We'll approximate the total number of pitches per game at 270. That would make 30 baseballs used per game (270 / 9). If all 30 teams played the entire 162 scheduled games in a season, that would be 2,430 games played. So for this example, that would make 72,900 baseballs used in one season.
No. Baseballs are rubbed with mud before games to take the shine off and make them a little easier for the pitcher to grip. Click on the 'Baseball Mud' link on this page to read a history of the provider of mud to MLB.
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