baseballs yellowing

[cdahlk2001]

the NL and AL baseballs they used i see alot of them yellowing. i know now a days everyone wants snow white balls....question is in 25 yrs are these balls going to be the same as the nl al baseballs? i have a hank aaron NL auto baseball and it was white. in storage cool dry place. not in sunlight and now its yellowing. the price is not as high if white but it is a old baseball. i see the babe ruth balls and think in that years time the balls now will look like that....2 cents?

 

[houbb]

It's the cheap glue they use in the balls that causes that spotty yellowing. They yellowing really started to get bad on balls made during the Bobby Brown era, when he was American League President. I'm guessing Rawlings went with the lowest bidder on the glue. I had balls that yellowed in horrid splotchy patches where you could literally see where they applied the glue. Horrid. Absolutely horrid. This didn't happen before then. Before they yellowed due to sunlight exposure, such as those Ruth balls you are talking about. Rawlings, allegedly, has corrected this problem, but you're not going to know for a few years if this is true or only a rumor. It takes a while for those balls to yellow.