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Baseball
A kind of ball · also called hardball
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About
A standard baseball is a compact, leather-wrapped sphere measuring about 3 inches across and weighing roughly 5 ounces.
Official baseball specifications require a circumference between 9 and 9.25 inches, which corresponds to a diameter of roughly 2.9 to 3 inches (0.075 m). It is significantly smaller and denser than a standard softball, which measures 11 to 12 inches around. Despite fitting easily inside an adult palm, the tightly wound layers of yarn around a cork and rubber center give it a solid weight of 5.1 ounces (0.145 kg).
From Wikipedia
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. Gameplay centers around the pitcher on the fielding team throwing a baseball to a batter on the opposing team, who tries to hit it into the field of play.
Read more on Wikipedia →Text from Wikipedia’s “Baseball” article, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Questions people ask
- How big is a baseball?
- A regulation baseball measures about 3 inches (0.075 m) in diameter and weighs 5.1 ounces (0.145 kg). This makes it slightly larger and noticeably denser than a standard tennis ball.
- How much space does a baseball take up?
- About 13.5 tbsp (200 mL), the volume of its body.
Weight
5.11 oz (145 g)
- Space it takes up
- 13.5 tbsp (200 mL)
- Length
- 2.95 in (7.5 cm)
- Height
- 2.95 in (7.5 cm)
Quick answer
A regulation baseball measures about 3 inches (0.075 m) in diameter and weighs 5.1 ounces (0.145 kg). This makes it slightly larger and noticeably denser than a standard tennis ball.
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