Bill, To clarify: Major league baseball is played with a hardball, probably a 6 inch circumference. Softball is played with a 12 inch or 16 inch ball. 12 inch fast pitch (underhand but still) is a wicked game and the ball is hard. As kids, the 16 inch ball got pretty soft after a couple of summers. Are we on the same page? Regards, Bob S.
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:14 AM, William Robb<war...@gmail.com> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Stenquist" > Subject: Re: another completely useless off topic question -Roller > Bat/RollerBall > > >> I don't know if sixteen inches is an accurate circumference measurement >> of the Chicago "Clincher" balls. The diameter appears to be closer to seven >> inches. They're pretty substantial. And hard as a rock when new. > > We call those things "softballs" here, and the smaller baseballs we call > "hardballs". I suspect this has nothing to do with the ball itself, and more > to do with the way the ball is used. > > William Robb > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
