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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Dennis Schrader's baseball shrine: Prepare to enter "Little Cooperstown," the world's largest known collection of autographed Major League Baseballs. The largest collection of autographed baseballs in the world (as recognized by Guinness World Records) is not in Cooperstown, New York, it is at “Little Cooperstown,” in Odessa Florida. It all began for ...
Renderings of the Rawlings 2010 Home Run Derby Baseball, Home Run Derby Gold "Money" Ball, and All-Star Futures Baseballs have been released. 2010 Rawlings All-Star futures Game Baseball Rawlings 2010 Home Run Derby Baseball, Los Angeles Rawlings 2010 Home Run Derby Gold Baseball, Los Angeles UPDATE: New images are posted showing the actual ...
Big League Baseballs has uncovered a key turning point in the history of the Mid-Summer Classic's game ball, and now we offer you the exclusive interview and story about how today's colorful baseballs came to be, and how one fan and team employee, along with one Hall of Famer, played an integral part in the ...
Big League Baseballs came across what appears to be a heck of a find, this vintage Spalding National League baseball. Stamped with NL president Ford C. Frick's signature, it's a beauty, and there is little information about it. What makes it unique, and apparently extremely rare, are the multi-colored laces. Two-toned laces were a thing ...
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