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#11
09-13-2022, 02:18 PM
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It would have been extremely unusual for more than one ball to be involved. Balls were tracked like gold bars. Fans "failing to return" balls were prosecuted and players were fined/suspended if suspected of "losing" balls. I think they had just begun to phase out the spitball by 1919, but a well-doctored ball was still the pitcher's rightful property. The death of Chapman the following year would start the process of empowering umpires to retire balls due to blackness, soggy-ness, misshapenness, etc.
I hope time-capsule-technology has improved since then. 
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