Japanese Juicing

[Abomination]

Seems that the Japanese Nippon League was frustrated at the lack of home runs, so they decided to juice ... the balls. Finally they had to admit it.

 

http://espn.go.com/new-york/story/_/id/9404524/refreshing-honesty-nippon-baseball-league

[dineke]

Is it weird that I thought of juicing Japanese people in a blender when I saw the title?

[KSaw]

Interesting piece but the writer should have done a little more research. 1987s Nitro Ball season was also the first year of Rawlings making baseballs with lower and tighter seams. Also at the time Wilson made all the balls for the minor leagues and those balls had big raised seams. This was a nightmare for pitchers, especially rookies. It's not so much the ball was juiced. It was just harder to make break. It took pitchers time to adjust and they served up some meatballs along the way.