US1873221A - Baseball - Google Patents

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Aug. 23, 1932. SENN 1,873,221

BAS EBALL Filed Aug. 5, 1951 Patented Aug. 23, 1932 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE GEORGE SENN', OF GREEN BAY, WISCONSIN BASEBALL Application filed- August 3, 1931. Serial No. 554,853.)

sphere 4 and embedded therein as shown in Fig. 2. I provide the usual windings of yarn 3 on the rubber sphere 4 and the usual covering 1 of leather stitched together at 2 in the conventional manner. In consequence of this construction the center of gravity is ofiset from the true center of the ball and consequently allows the ball to be thrown with slightly greater curves than a conventional ball havin the center of gravity at the true center of t 1e baseball. Also when this offset baseball is hit at various points opposite the cork center, the resulting motion will cause curved flies, fouls and hits thus requiring players to be more expert in catching the ball as well as in hitting.

What I claim is 1. An cit-center baseball comprising a central sphere of rubber, a cork sphere embedded in the rubber sphere and offset from center of same, yarn Wound on the rubber sphere to conventional size and a leather covering over the yarn.

2. An ofi-center baseball having a piece of cork in the interior of the body, ofiset from the true center of the ball whereby the center of gravity is offset from the true center ofthe baseball for the purpose hereinbefore described.

GEORGE SENN.

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