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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They all do different things to the way the ball acts. Such as lift, spin and curve.

Footballs are more commonly made of lozenge shapes as well the hexagonal “tango” balls, and have had various designs over the years. As demonstrated in the below link.

https://images.app.goo.gl/JDg4DYTKuxFFdPaG8

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