About this product
Professional Training Baseball – in stock at 361 Degrees Adventure in Tanzania.
These are hand-sewn PU leather practice balls with a hard core, supplied as a pair.
First, the thing we need to flag. Our supplier-s description calls them practice softballs while the listing title said baseball. Those are genuinely different balls: a baseball is about 23 cm in circumference and around 145 g, while a softball is roughly 30 cm and 180 g. You cannot substitute one for the other – the bat, the glove and the game are all different. Tell us which you need and we will confirm what is actually in stock before you order.
What we can describe is the construction, and it matters. A hand-sewn ball has its cover stitched on rather than glued, which is what holds a ball together through hundreds of hard contacts. Glued practice balls come apart at the seam within a few sessions. PU leather is the synthetic cover used on most practice balls – tougher than real leather outdoors, unbothered by damp, and considerably cheaper.
The hard core is the other essential. Soft foam training balls have their place for very young children and indoor work, but they come off a bat completely differently and teach nothing about real contact. A practice ball with a firm centre behaves like the real thing.
Buy more than two if you are practising seriously. Any hitting session with fewer than a dozen balls is mostly spent fetching, and fetching is not practice. Two is the right number for catch and throw.
Buying a Professional Training Baseball in Tanzania
361 Degrees Adventure keeps the professional training baseball at our showroom in Upanga, Dar es Salaam, with delivery countrywide across Tanzania. Come and handle it before you buy, or order online and collect.
Every professional training baseball is checked in store before it leaves us, and our staff use the same kit in the field, so you get an honest answer on fit and sizing rather than a sales pitch.
Not sure which professional training baseball suits you? Call or message the showroom and we will talk you through the options that are actually in stock in Dar es Salaam.
Spare parts and replacements for the professional training baseball are easier to get here than on an overseas order, which matters once the gear is in use.
Browse more Baseball in Dar es Salaam, or see the full 361 Degrees range. For general background on baseball, see this overview on Wikipedia.
Practice Balls - Hand-Sewn PU Leather Training Balls, Pair