Each team uses roughly ten dozen baseballs in a regular baseball game. These include balls thrown by the pitcher and catcher but do not include balls thrown by fielders. This implies that the catcher must field around 120 pitches every game. A major league catcher can catch around 100 pitches in an average game. The number of balls used in a baseball game has decreased over time. When Major League Baseball (MLB) began requiring that each team have its own ball manager in 1877, it was given the choice of either using one hundred balls or having two pairs of balls for each game. The majority (about seventy-five%) chose to use one hundred balls, while the remaining twenty-five% decided to share those balls between them. By 1889, all teams had chosen to use one hundred balls per game. By modern standards, this is a large number of balls that could potentially be lost or damaged during play. However, this number is relatively small compared to other forms of ball sport such as cricket and American football. In these sports, it is common for hundreds of balls to be lost or damaged during a single game. In addition, MLB has implemented several measures since 1877 designed to reduce the amount of damage done to balls during play.