Soccer balls ⚽️ are made with a bunch of hexagons
Baseballs ⚾️ and Tennis Balls 🎾 have two a rounded hourglass shapes
Basketballs 🏀 have their own weird thing going on
Volleyballs 🏐 have the rectangles
Why aren’t there soccer balls with the volleyball pattern? Why not make a baseball out of hexagons?
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Cricket is super interesting with the balls that it uses too. The main manufacturers are Dukes in the UK (also used in the wiest indies i think) , the Kookaburra in Australia (used by south Africa and nz too and a stack of other countries), and the SG ball in India. While they comply with all of the same dimensions and stuff like that, the two types behave drastically different. The kookaburra is machine stitched and the others are hand stitched so that makes a difference in their durability, whether they swing or not (a good thing), and the consistency between different balls. The balls are so different that it’s a common practice for touring countries to play a few rounds of domestic cricket with the ball of the country they are going to so they can attempt to get used to the differences.
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