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How many yards (yds.) of wool in a baseball?
 219 yards
(53 yds. + 45 yds. + 121 yds.)
How many feet (ft.) of wool in a baseball?
657 feet
(219 yds. x 3 ft.)
How many baseballs come from 1 pound (lb.) of wool?
80 balls
(10 miles x 5,280 ft. = 52,800 ft. ÷ 657 ft.)
How many pounds of wool are needed to produce the 600,000 baseballs used by
Major League Baseball each year?
7,500 lbs.
(600,000 balls ÷ 80 balls per lb.)
Rawlings, the official maker of MLB baseballs, produces 4,000 dozen (doz.)
baseballs a week. How many baseballs is that each year?
2,496,000 balls
(4,000 doz. x 12 = 48,000 balls/week x 52 weeks)
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