ENTER TO WIN! Rawlings 2011 Official Salt River Fields Ball and Much More!

Rawlings 2011 Inaugural Season Salt River Fields at Talking Stick Baseball

Finally! Enter for your chance to win! Salt River Fields at Talking Stick Official Major League Baseballs and 2011 Official All-Star Game Baseball, 2010 Civil Rights Game Baseball, 2002 Reggie Jackson Monument Park Day Baseball! Join the Big League Baseballs Forum, take a guess at the total number of ...

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Part 2: Exclusive Interview with Arizona Diamondbacks, Unveiling Salt River Fields at Talking Stick Official Rawlings Baseballs

D-backs Rockies Spring Training Salt River Fields at Talking Stick Game Ball

Part 2: Exclusive Interview with the Arizona Diamondbacks, Unveiling Salt River Fields at Talking Stick Official Rawlings Baseballs ~ ~ ~ Last week, a rare opportunity was presented to BigLeagueBaseballs.com to take part in the news release announcement for the Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies new Inaugural Season at Salt River Fields at Talking Stick Official MLB ...

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Part 1 of 2: Exclusive Interview with Arizona Diamondbacks, Unveiling Salt River Fields at Talking Stick Official Rawlings Baseballs

Salt River Fields at Talking Stick Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies Spring Training

Part 1 of 2: Exclusive Interview with Arizona Diamondbacks, Unveiling Salt River Fields at Talking Stick Official Rawlings Baseballs. ~ ~ ~ Salt River Fields at Talking Stick, the new spring home to the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Colorado Rockies:  A 140-acre site that includes an 11,000-seat ballpark, 12 practice fields, Major and Minor League clubhouses, ...

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A look inside The MLB Authentication Program

Hanley Ramirez Game Used Baseball Helmet Bat Shoes

Sports Illustrated recently published an excellent article detailing the MLB Authentication Program. It includes a review of the process that official authenticators use during games to authenticate baseballs, jerseys, bases and even "game-used" dirt from the pitchers mound. In the billion dollar memorabilia industry, where so many frauds are out to make a buck off ...

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Rawlings 2011 Official MLB All-Star Baseball (Arizona) Already Released

Rawlings 2011 All-Star Game Baseballs

On this Thanksgiving Day, we at BigLeagueBaseballs.com would like to give thanks to the fine folks at Rawlings Sporting Goods and Major League Baseball, for the release of the 2011 All-Star Game Baseball. We didn't expect to see this one for at least another two to three months. It's by far the earliest release we've ...

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The Rawlings 2008 RED Home Run Derby Baseball: They’re real, and they’re Spectacular!

BigLeagueBaseballs.com Rawlings 2008 HR Derby RED Baseball

Since 2005, Major League Baseball has used a Gold Home Run Derby Ball to go along with its regular Home Run Derby ball. The contest, which takes place during the All-Star Game festivities on the eve of the big game, allows batters 10 outs per round, with the Gold Balls being used after the batter ...

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Rawlings Official Major League Baseballs: How it’s Made

Rawlings Official Major League Baseball Unstitched Demonstration Ball

Discovery's "How it's Made" series covered the Rawlings Official Major League Baseball. Awesome footage of the Rawlings factory in Costa Rica, and a number of the processes used for making official game balls: Below are a few pictures of an unfinished Rawlings MLB Baseball given to BigLeaugeBaseballs.com. These balls came direct from Rawlings (Thank you!). These ...

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Images of the Rawlings 2010 MLB World Series Baseball, Official Logo Revealed

2010 World Series, Major League Baseball

It's still July, the 2010 Major League Baseball season recently passed its halfway point with the All-Star Game in Anaheim, and we're already seeing the 2010 World Series Official Game Ball. Seems a bit early, but regardless, we're happy to help unveil the new World Series logo for 2010: The official embroidered patch for ...

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Rawlings 2010 MLB Taiwan Games and San Juan Series Commemorative Game Baseballs

Rawlings 2010 San Juan and Taiwan Commemorative Baseballs

Every so often, the folks at Major League Baseball sneak one by us. We're missing five or six baseballs in the Museum of Baseballs' photo galleries, and in our collective... collections. If that makes sense. These are mostly baseballs from the late 1990s and early 2000s that we just weren't on the look out for, ...

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