File:Baseball center comparison.jpg

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Description Halves of two baseballs, illustrating the composition of the balls. On the left, a traditional cork-centered ball, and on the right, a rubber-centered ball used during World War II. The rubber centers, borrowed from golf balls, were used due to wartime material shortages.
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This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division
under the digital ID fsa.8b09630.
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Author Roger Smith, photographer for the Office of War Information
Other versions Cropped from original, to remove border and focus on balls. Also edited slightly for contrast.
Public domain This image is a work of an employee of the United States Farm Security Administration or Office of War Information domestic photographic units, taken as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain in the United States. See Copyright.

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