
The second video from Pat - "For the outdoor tennis players out there, the season here in the Mid-Atlantic is in full swing (get it...?), so our thoughts turn to whacking the fuzzy ball. This is another video from our friends at South Carolina Educational TV. It's a 7-1/2-minute tour of a Wilson tennis ball plant. Wilson Sporting Goods is the world's largest manufacturer of tennis balls. The video follows the ball through the process from slugs to half-shells to the core and finally to the application of green felt to the outside. This one plant makes 90,000 dozen balls a week, over 50 million a year. Incredible." - Link.
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There is no doubt where all these tennis balls go. My daughter plays tennis five hours every day and I believe spends much of that time actually eating the soft yellow things.
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so Do machine's make them or human ?
anyway's me & my friend are doing are experment on tennis balls & we want to no how do make one at home it would help if you could give exfise please reply Emily.xox<3 & morgan her friend CHESSE shut up morgan NO Bye!.!.!.!
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