I'm currently in England, and had occasion to play with a cricket ball. The cricket ball does indeed have a seam around the equator. I was told that the center was cork. The cover looked like leather, but I couldn't be sure. Since the cricket ball is also pitched/"bowled", the aerodynamics of the seam would appear to be important. This is an interesting case of parallel evolution... At 11:01 AM 7/4/03 -0400, Bernie Cosell wrote:
On 4 Jul 2003 at 7:25, Henry Baker wrote:
I hope that you know enough about baseball to appreciate the elegance of the baseball's seam:
What property of the 'seam' problem for the baseball precludes just an equator for the seam as a possible solution? Is there some "minimization of necessary stretch" or other criterion that drives the more complicated shape?
/Bernie\
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