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We started by checking MLB.com, the official site of Major League Baseball, figuring they would be the authority on all things baseball. We checked the History and Kids sections, but couldn't find any information concerning the number of balls used in a game. We wouldn't be surprised if the information is somewhere on the site, but we struck out. We headed back to Yahoo! and typed a few words into the search box. We chose the words we deemed to be the most significant -- baseballs, how, many, used, game -- and were fortunate enough to find a web page with relevant information.
We stopped by a page titled Baseball Basics from the Tallahassee Democrat Online. Staff writer Gerald Ensley's job is to explain "stuff about baseball that many of us don't know," including how many new balls are used each game. According to Ensley, every major league game begins with six dozen balls. He goes on to explain that the average life of a ball is six pitches. Since most major league games average between 250 and 300 pitches, that would put the ball count at about 40 or 50 balls used per game. Sounds reasonable to us. Now, if we only we could figure out why they put a team in Montreal.
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