"Baseball is something I think ... Their book "America At The Seams" was released Wednesday and contains powerful tales juxtaposed to photos of the map taken by local photographer Wes Eisenhauer.

Its trajectory is determined entirely by how the seams affect the turbulent airflow around the baseball ... the better to capture two successive images of the balls in motion.

The 27-page report ultimately concluded that the increase in home run rates in MLB can be attributed to the inconsistent baseball seam heights as well as players embracing launch angle.

“I think the seams were pretty close to minor-league baseball seams,” Wilk said. “They weren’t super tightly wound like the big-league balls are here. They also weren’t like college ...

Unable to change their stature, pitchers have often turned to the baseball's seams to produce unexpected movement. Clay Holmes has leveraged his knowledge of "seam-shifted wake" — a phenomenon ...

It’s thrown with a grip that places the index and middle fingers across the seams of the baseball horizontally. It’s defined by more vertical than horizontal movement, meaning it rides more ...

When a baseball is tilted and spinning just right, its raised, hand-stitched seams skew the process by which its wake is created and radically shift its trajectory in the air Receive a weekly dose ...