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Nobody actually knows who created the original figure-8 Baseball design. Some expertsÊcredit a shoemaker's son, Ellis Drake, who didn't patent the idea and got his design stolen. Other experts credit Colonel William A Cutler. In either case it certainly wasn't any Joseph H. Shockley. As for why, well, in the case of Ellis Drake, the story goes he dreamed of a ball they could use that wouldn't tear apart as easily as the balls they'd been using before.Ê

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