If you get a chance try and get hold of a Cricket ball that has been used 
for 50 overs (300 balls bowled), compare that with a brand new baseball, and 
then honestly tell me which one is softer.

If you are still undecided, get a picthing/bowling machine, set it to 
pitch/bowl at 80mph or 90mph, stand in front of the ball 20 meters away and 
let hit you on the head or ribs or any other part of the body, and then give 
an honest opinion which ball you felt was softer and therefore gave you less 
injury or pain.




"Richard R. Hershberger" <rrhersh@acme.com> wrote in message 
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>
> ben wrote:
>
> [top posting corrected]
>
>> > I'm fairly sure,
>> > however, that a typical cricket ball in use in a game is softer than a
>> > basebal lin use in a game.  Baseballs are regularly removed from play 
>> > as
>> > soon as they've been damaged in any way, so players never encounter one
>> > that's softened from use.  In major league baseball, for instance, 
>> > umpires
>> > are required to ready six dozen balls before each game, and they 
>> > routinely
>> > use most of them.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Roger Moore  |  Master of Meaningless Trivia  | 
>> > (raj@alumni.caltech.edu)
>> > There's no point in questioning authority if you don't listen to the
>> > answers.
>
>> LOL. Cricket ball softer than a baseball in a typical game. This would 
>> have
>> to be the funniest thing I have heard in a while. May be you should have 
>> a
>> look at  a cricket ball after it has been used for 80 overs and see 
>> exactly
>> how soft it is compared to a baseball.
>
> I'm trying to understand your assertion.  Roger claimed that a baseball
> and a cricket ball are, when new, of roughly equal hardness, and that
> since baseballs are replaced frequently over the course of the game
> while cricket balls are not, the net effect is that cricket balls are
> on average softer than baseballs.  While you find this argument
> hilarious, you haven't actually refuted it.  What part of Roger's
> argument is incorrect?  Please be specific.
>
> Richard R. Hershberger
>