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How many double stitches hold the cover of an official Major League baseball together?
Answer
108 stitches
Every MLB baseball is still stitched entirely by hand in Costa Rica — attempts to automate the figure-eight seam have never succeeded. A skilled sewer needs 10–15 minutes per ball, and a single MLB game can go through more than 100 balls.
Source: Rawlings / MLB
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