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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.
Source	This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division under the digital ID fsa.8b09630 This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information.
Date	January 1943
Author	Roger Smith, photographer for the Office of War Information
Permission (Reusing this image)	see below
Other versions	Cropped from original, to remove border and focus on balls. Also edited slightly for contrast.

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