According to "The Baseball: Stunts, Scandals, and Secrets Beneath the Stitches" by Zack Hample (2011), and discussed on the New York Daily News on June 15, 2010, approximately 250,000 Reach and Spalding Official American and National League baseballs were manufactured in 1930, and another 450,000 McGregor 97 various minor league official balls were made. Reach and Spalding made 350,000 in 1940. Approximately 200 official balls were used by MLB per day in 1930, 280 in 1940. Many other less official balls were used for batting practice. Per the Commissioner's Office, today 1.26 million official Rawlings balls are manufactured per year, with 900,000 used per year by MLB, 30,000 allocated to each team. 200 official balls are used per game, batting practice, foul balls and in-game combined.
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