Patent ID: 6500081
Filing Date: 2002-12-31
Classification: A63B

Abstract:
A method of constructing a baseball constructed of a spherical core, a first cover formed approximately in the shape of a FIG. 8, and a second cover formed approximately in the shape of a FIG. 8, which comprises forming cuts in the peripheries of the two covers adjacent the edges, the cuts partially penetrating the thickness of the two cover members, punching a series of thread holes through the folded peripheries of the first and second covers, folding the peripheries of the first and second covers under along the two cuts to provide first and second covers which have peripheries which are double the thickness of the main body area of the two covers, gluing the folded periphery to the cover along the edges, placing the first and second covers with the folded-under peripheries over the spherical core to completely enclose the surface of the spherical core, and using two threads stitching the folded-under peripheries of the first and second covers together in intersecting and overlapping manner with a pair of elongated threads, to thereby provide a ball with exposed stitching in raised intersecting areas.