Japan baseball officials under fire for secretly introducing new balls

AP ^ | June 12, 2013 | Jim Armstrong

[rickmichaels]

TOKYO – Japanese baseball officials are being criticized for secretly switching balls for this season without notifying players.

With close to 60 games already played, Nippon Professional Baseball admitted this week for the first time that a new ball was being used. The new, livelier ball has resulted in more home runs.

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[Jack Hammer]

Hey, over sixty here, and let me tell you, there’s nothing I wouldn’t give for new balls.

[COBOL2Java]

They’ve got livelier balls and didn’t tell anyone?

Wish they'd introduce some to the GOP side of Congress...

[Hegewisch Dupa]

That whiner is hardly the postergirl for “real”

[fnord]

I wouldn’t have been able to keep it secret that long

[Baseballguy]

I was commenting on the Pete Rose photo

[Baseballguy]

Beside compared to Baseball heros :Mark McGuire, Jose Canseco, Roger Clemens. Barry Bonds. I think Pete Rose should be in the Hall of Fame and those guys should not even have a * is the record books.

[Hegewisch Dupa]

You are certainly right about the Roids Gang; we’re on common ground there.