Baseballs

I have never heard of a Baden baseball but I have in basketball. Hopefully it will be a good product if everyone has to use it.

In Kentucky you can use whatever ball you want during the regular season but the postseason has to be played with Rawlings. I either got the R100 or R200 each year.

Speaking of balls - I always got practice balls from Collegiate Pacific called Mark I. They are game quality balls for around $25 a dozen. In fact we used them sometimes for JV and Freshman games if we were running short of Rawlings. When I become a head coach again I am definately going back to them.

Baden is the state ball here in LA. I really dont like them, mostly because they have blue writing on them and I simply dont like that. I just got a bunch of their all weather practice balls. They are working out good so far.

Baden, like most manufacturers, have baseballs in the whole price/quality spectrum........from Kids balls all the way to Pro specs....

Like most you get what you pay for.....I know the college balls are very good and comparable to the other major manufacturers .....The make balls for LL, Babe Ruth, Cal Ripken, PONY ect.....

I dont have any experience with their all weather ball.......

California, Southern Section, must you Rawlings with a CIF SS stamp on the ball.

Do you guys think the Rawlings ROLB balls are ok for 16u summer ball? Found a good deal on a bunch...but it's only a good deal if I can use them in games.

Just a few quick questions, has anyone ever enforced the ball rule in any of your games...???

In Pa, the Wilson A1010PRO-RS SST is the official ball, however they also state that Member schools are reminded that the adoptions are for use during PIAA participating Districts and PIAA Inter-District (state) Championship play only. Schools are not required to use these balls during their regular season contests....

NFHS rules say that we are to use only baseballs with the NFHS authenticating mark.....

Now that being said, If I show up and we have 2 teams and 3 baseballs, we are going to play......I have also umpired in some fairly rural schools where I had to go my car and supply 2 new baseballs to get the game in.......noone had remembered to bring any......they were PONY league balls.....

I am not holding a game up over marks or branding on the baseballs...

The choice of balls is very important to pitchers. Some have raised seems more than others and some are extremely slippery even after Umps scuff them. We always used Wilsons in the elite league games. It wasn't uncommon to go through more than a gross of balls in some parks.

PIAA, I've never seen an umpire or official enforce that a specific ball be used. Simple-- it's only required during the state series. BUT, why would a school necessarily choose to use a different ball than what they are required to use in the postseason? Obviously, part of it could be budget not allowing for all new stuff.

This probably is not near as big of a concern with baseball or softball as it is for football or basketball. With baseball, many of them only last 2-3 games if that. In basketball, you could use the same game ball for years. And the basketballs for practice are going to last 2-3 years as well.

Anybody who went out and bought a bunch of new basketballs, volleyballs, s****r balls, or footballs this year in Illinois can not be happy with the new contract.

Oh, and here's a good one-- Baden is going to give each member school a ball for each sport Gonna do baseball a lot of good

little humor.

Years ago we had a coaches meeting and the league commissioner had a representative from a company that made baseballs. He asked us if we had any problems with the ball we currently were using. I raised my hand and said yes. He asked what it was I replied we cant hit field or throw the ones we were using You have to have a little fun

We use Rawlings or Diamond balls for our varsity games, but use Baden for our Fresh/Soph games and all practices.

Compared to the Rawlings and Diamond, the Baden balls really seem to jump off the bats more in the hot summer humidity.

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Originally posted by piaa_ump:
Just a few quick questions, has anyone ever enforced the ball rule in any of your games...???

Yes.

We are supposed to use a raised seam ball (Rawlings R200) and sometimes coaches try to substitute different (I guess cheaper) balls.

I don't like it when people do, and will point it out to the umps, because the feel of the seams and the hide can be quite different.

so what was enforced exactly...??.......the official NFHS interp tells us play the game anyway...

Baden baseballs are fine. We use them in some tournaments that supply them and haven't had any problems. When we have to purchase baseballs, we try to only buy Rawlings, but there's nothing wrong with good quality Badens. I actually like them better than Wilson baseballs, not as much as Diamonds or Rawlings.

we use diamond as a district.

TX-Husker...I use the ROLB for winter games and summer games. They are fine.