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Old 07-24-2020, 06:56 PM
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Default I Have a few early baseballs to share....




Most of these are pretty self explanatory. The two that I wanted to make note of are;
1. Second row far left. That is a Gutty Baseball. It has a Gutta Percha, (rubber outer layer), with twine and some type of core that shows up on x-ray. I would not have understood the ball had I not seen an example in "Banana Bats and Ding-Dong Balls". Reach was trying to create a seamless baseball.
2. The second is the baseball in the third row closest to the viewer, second from the far right. It has over 130 stitches. It has to be late 1860's early 1870's.




1858 New York rules baseball. One piece lemon peel trophy baseball Atlantics 39 Mutuals 20.



Possibly a seamless baseball. Possibly a "Dead Red" baseball. Lynch ball and Tenner ball.



1870's baseball with it's original canvas wrapper. 1890's J. Carr's baseball with box.




D&M double seam with deerskin leather. Possibly a "Dead Red" baseball. Spalding High Flyer. '03 Pullium baseball.






Early 1900's UPenn and Columbia trophy baseballs.



1890 Kiffe Sporting Goods baseball trophy.




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