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10 bits of baseball history I learned from "A Game of Inches"

7. Baseballs were not uniformly stitched until the figure-eight pattern was introduced sometime in the 1800s.

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There have not always been stitches.

  • By Ross Atkin, Monitor staff editor

But who deserves credit and when exactly this design became standard is unclear.

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