Why do spherical sports balls have different stitch patterns for each sport? Why don’t they mix it up?

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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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To answer your question with a question somewhat, why would they? 40 million soccer balls are made a year, a whole lot of that is because you can have factories that pump out thousands a day if not more. Changing the design would make it more complicated on them, others have already explained that the changes would effect the players, and for what? Theres not any real benefit to significantly changing the ball design and thered be significant cost so nobody bothers

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