Limited Release Baseball:
An extraordinary ball of remarkable beauty. Brown Horween Golf Ball Print Baseballs are made from the remnants of our recent Limited Release football offering. These baseballs are made from genuine Horween Brown Ruffian Golf Ball Print leather from Chicago's famed Horween tannery. It's an elegant medium weight leather in brown. Embossed with a reverse football pebble print that resembles a golf ball's dimples. It is stitched with natural linen thread.
The Horween Tannery:
Founded in Chicago in 1905, Horween is a storied American tannery that was instrumental in the early days of the NFL. Horween continues to work closely with the leagues and leading sporting goods manufacturers to develop leathers specifically designed for sports, including football, basketball and baseball gloves. Horween Football leather is embossed with a pebble print and treated to make the balls grip-able for play.
The modern baseball is a nearly perfect creation. Designed to fit neatly in your hand, its perfect weight and tactile qualities beg to be picked up, rolled around in your hand, and thrown with force and accuracy.
I have been studying baseball construction for over 40 years. It is the obsession that lead me to start Leather Head Sports.
The secret to hand stitching a perfect baseball starts with a perfect pattern and we were lucky acquire one several years ago.
Our baseballs are made from the highest quality leathers, hand stitched over a real wound baseball core, so they're suitable for play. They are the perfect size and weight, with the added tactile appeal of top quality leather that will develop a beautiful patina with time a use.
Specs
- 9 inches in circumference
- 5 oz
- Hand stitched
- Horween Ruffian Golf Ball Print leather cover
- Real baseball core
- Made in America
