Freezing or Microwaving Softballs?

[jaburles7]

Ive heard stories of people freezing and or microwaving thier softballs to harden the core and make the ball fly further. Does anybody have any experience that will confirm or bust this myth?

 

[TEDDY3]

old?

Ive heard stories of people freezing and or microwaving thier softballs to harden the core and make the ball fly further. Does anybody have any experience that will confirm or bust this myth?

put your balls in a cooler

 

[ckelley7]

i have never understood how microwaving them will help

 

[Gateway Man]

Somebody even suggested that dipping them in gas would make them hotter.

 

[Evil Gio]

I have my balls rolled before every game.

 

[dlang00001]

colorado uses a humidifyer to reduce the home-runs hit
in their ball park.. So I would assume heat would reduce flight
just a guess though...

 

[jaburles7]

From what is being said on the internet microwaving a ball heats the core and increases the compression apon cooling.

 

[strategy8]

i always keep my balls rolled AND shaved...

 

[Dinger67]

Ive heard stories of people freezing and or microwaving thier softballs to harden the core and make the ball fly further. Does anybody have any experience that will confirm or bust this myth?

Simple! Do balls fly farther during cool weather or during hot weather?

 

[Stretch19]

both are illegal, so why bother?

 

[FranDog33]

Simple! Do balls fly farther during cool weather or during hot weather?

weather has a correlation on distance because a cool game (usually at night) has more moisture in the air putting more friction and weight on the ball as it flys. a game played in warm weather usually sees balls travel farther because the air is less heavy and therefore the ball has less resistance when hit.

a frozen ball would make sense because the entire ball would in a sense "contract" to be a more compact and tighter ball which tends to travel farther. microwaving a ball does not make much sense to me but could work

 

[bbomber4]

I've left .44/375 balls in the trunk of my car during the summer and turned them to mush. I can't see microwaving making them better.

 

[sfoley826]

I've left .44/375 balls in the trunk of my car during the summer and turned them to mush. I can't see microwaving making them better.

same here they turned into a sock no matter what the comp. was on the ball. The heat just kills balls and high humidity will make them socks as well.