# The Secret History of Balls

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- Book: [The Secret History of Balls](https://www.bookquiver.com/josh-chetwynd/the-secret-history-of-balls) ([The Secret History of Balls.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/josh-chetwynd/the-secret-history-of-balls.md))
- Authors: [Josh Chetwynd](https://www.bookquiver.com/josh-chetwynd)
- Publisher: tarcher
- ISBN: 978-03-9953-674-8
- Pages: 240
- Published: 2011-05-03
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

You may fancy yourself a sports fan, but chances are you don't know: A fish eyeball was used as the center of some nineteenth-century baseballs The race to make better billiard balls led to the...