How many stitches are there on a baseball?
Sports hard Data from 2024
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The answer
108 stitches
Every official MLB baseball has exactly 108 double stitches, and every one of them is sewn by hand — machines still cannot do it reliably. A single ball takes a worker about 15 minutes, and MLB gets through roughly 900,000 balls a season.
Where this number comes from
| Source | Major League Baseball official rules and Rawlings specifications |
|---|---|
| Figure refers to | 2024 |
| Last checked | |
| Unit | stitches |
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