$2 VS $25 Baseball (Is It Worth It?) 

It’s sad to think that back then, baseballs used to be 99 cents at the local drug store but now it’s so hard to find good quality baseballs and they all cost at least $13 (minimum), it’s not just inflation but over the years, the price increases for everything. Some ppl might think it’s not too much but for a ball that can easily be lost and or damaged, it will get tiring for having to constantly pay for a new ball.

From my experience, finding true Rawlings MLB balls on the cheap was something my friends and I did regularly back in the late-90s & early-00s. Those balls were $12-$15 at the time and none of us were up to spending $70+ for a half-dozen balls to hit around for two hours on a Sunday morning. So, here's what we did. Here in Philly, we had quite a few sports memorabilia shops in and around the city. All of these shops had autographed balls to sell. Yes, some of them were signed by stars which upped the value, but most of them were signed by local players - many who were backups, #5 starters, utility players, etc. Shops carried these of local players because some fans just like to have something affordable or maybe they try to put together an entire "team set", or whatever. One thing happens to a baseball (in the collector's market) when a less-known player signs it - it brings the value of the ball down. Even when the balls were $12, we could get a Desi Relaford, or Kevin Jordan, or Doug Glanville signed ball for $3-$5. I'd often grab six or so and get a bulk discount and spend no more than $20 for all of them. It's a bit tougher now since there aren't nearly the amount of shops that sell these balls. But if you happen to be near one and take a look, I'd be willing to bet you'll be able to get a couple well below the cost of an unsigned ball. Good luck in your search if you choose to do so.

I got a story about the $25 balls (aka the official gameballs), they are assembled in my home country, Costa Rica. So when i was 6 i went to the states, my dad saw we had the time so we went to watch a Phillies vs Braves game, in that game i caught a ball. So if you think about it that ball flew 2152 miles from Costa Rica to Philly then flew another 2152 miles from Philly to Costa Rica.

Isaiah and the boys have gotten so much better at film over the years!

Diamond makes a good pearl. And their buckets are dope

Somehow I already know this is gonna be a banger...

lapp bros are so under rated! they needed to get more loveee for being sooo good!!!!!!

The sound difference was crazy. Thanks for the video

Sunday October 15th, 2023 I have a total of 5 baseballs. I caught 1 at a Charlotte Knights Baseball game on Thursday July 23rd, 2015(still own it) and I bought 4 Charlotte Knights Baseballs(1 on June 1st, 2023 & 3 on Tuesday September 12th, 2023) at the Charlotte Knights store. The ones that were bought at the store were only $10.00 each. I'm getting another Charlotte Knights Baseball(ordering online) for Christmas and another one on Saturday March 9th, 2024, the day after my birthday.

Thanks for the great vids!!!

I don’t know if it’s just me but it feels like he was trying a little harder with the $25 ball than the $2. Either way great video as always ❤

personally, i’m from a low income family so finding a good enough baseball for me is as hard as finding a good bat. i really only have a collection of six two dollar balls, a hand-me-down glove, and a old wooden bat. i’m not great at baseball, but with what i have i’ve grown a liking to the sport, i enjoy playing it, and despite having basically no money for good equipment, i make do with what i have and enjoy it. yes, i envy having a metal bat, a nice glove and a good baseball, but with what i have, i try to make the most of it, and it’s fun. so for me, two dollar balls are a lot better than a twenty-five dollar ball for me, despite a clear difference in which is better.

The vids never fail ❤😂

Next video: $50k or $50M player (Does it really matter?)

Oh my gosh the sound of the mlb balls is so freaking satisfying when hit off a wood bat, but I will say I find the mlb leather balls to be much slippery than high quality Rawlings practice baseballs that cost 1/3 as much.

Looks like for $25 the baseball could at least be made in the USA! At least there still a few companies still trying to make wooden bats here in the USA!

dude i love your videos

9:13 this whole sentence is crazy 😂😂

Holy shit I never realized this was the Lapp Bros until I saw the channel name. I remember seeing your Baseball Stereotypes video from 5 years ago. I just subbed, keep up the good work guys

I live in Canada,and the $25 baseball costs me $40. Btw the $25/$40 baseball’s amazing

love the video ur chanel is great

I watch you ALL THE TIME! Also, LOOK AT DEM LEGS BRO NEVER SKIPS LEG DAY

I have many MLB baseballs from games and I thought they were useless on a shelf so I play with them and they are destroyed, didn’t know they were $25 😅

I know y'all made a video about baseball dads, but you should do one on baseball moms!! And don't leave out Florence and Patricia!

3:42 facts

Can't wait

You deserve more subscribers than you actually have.

GOATED vid

You dropped a fortune on this video...are singular baseballs worth 25 bucks?? I wonder🤔

Can’t wait

You should open more plate crates

I want to start getting into baseball and i just bought some of the cheap balls to practice throwing but i don’t know what glove to get. I dint have hundreds if dollars to spend on one so any sub $100 glove recommendations would be appreciated

i’m still enjoying these videos. they make me miss the sport though. this football season i tore my laburm so i’m not able to play this year. man i miss the sound of the ball hitting the glove

Those Amazon balls were probably counterfeit

Here before the banger drops

I used those two dollar baseballs and they work really well

I can’t wait

i have the same batting gloves as you and i didn't realize it until towards the end of the video.

Bro, now u got me complicating my life desitions

HI IM A BIG FAN OF YOUR BESKETBALL VIDEOS!

Not sure if you’ll see this but You should try hitting Japanese rubber balls. Love your videos im a fan of baseball because of baseball sport animes. 😊

What state are you from, these fields look so nice

Me

I have had games at this ballpark. I play for CV btw.

What’s the sound at 1:41 I’ve always wanted to know but never found out please respond Lapp Bros

very much worth the purchase

Hell of a place to put a ball field. Next to high tension lines where kids play. We all have heard about high tension lines and the cancer rate for people who live next to them.

The ones that land in the corn are probably double deck

The mlb baseballs were 25$ when I was like 12 years old. I guess their price was so high they haven’t been able to raise it in over a decade.

Back in junior college the Astros donated us probably 200 mlb bp balls. They were all lost within the first season of use bc they were hit so far compared to our normal balls

Is that a Little League 'Farm' division field? 200 ft fence.

Cost rica has amazing baseball players and they use great leather

3:34 so true

I mean it's $25 for the ball and display case; those are for autographs

5:55 you’d be shocked at the lifespan of a baseball

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There was a German girl at my high school. she said you have some weird sports here 😂

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Bruh we are practicing with just 3 baseball because our school is so poor

9:14 💀

You need better horse hides to start with, Clydesdale, Percheron, Thuroughbread,

“All the cheap things are made in China” he said but, the best things are also made in China

MLB all star game should be played with cheap baseballs, bats and gloves.

Astros or Phillies? (Go Stros)

Next up catchers gear

The dirt adds textur

$25 is Disneyland for the price of a baseball

0:03 the crack of the bat. 🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤

Approximately 75% of his arm strength and he's throwing 75 mph... You throw 100? 😂

When he seid it’s lopsided me like your face😊

Nice egg crack 😂

About 389 foot dingers Him man that sucks

I enjoyed this video a lot but you do realize you just compared a MLB ball with a leather cover to a 8U ball with a plastic cover right?

No wonder why I cant hit a ball out of the infield. The balls cost 2 bucks!

Like the X-Files music.

it’s either a dirty ball or lobsided ball 😳

You need to mud the MLB balls or the leather will split. But they honestly don’t last as long as you think.

Bro his swing is like a righty kyle shwarber

I'm laughing at dumpy car

You are throwing harder with the 25$ baseball

You can find practice baseballs that are pretty durable. They can last a couple of seasons if people are kinda nice to them. An MLB game baseball has an average life of less than 5 pitches. They aren't meant to be durable. They don't have to be. A lot don't get used on game day because a part isn't good enough. They reject Thousands of balls and only the best are in the games. My guess is anything you can buy in a store is one that wasn't selected for game use. I saw a similar display in a DIck's not long ago. I could see that there was a roundness issue with one of the balls while it was in the case. Another had awful stiching Like anything, there are different products for different purposes. I love having the cutout on the end of a wooden bat like anyone else; but it always wrecked a seam on a ball the second they met. Heh, I swung to help when my brother was learning to throw a cutter. He was trying to break my bat and stuff, but he wasn't happy that his balls lasted 3 pitches before they were unthrowable. That's what you get for being the I Miss Barrels guy, ass. Hahaha

I love baseball

LETS GO

$25 for a baseball is ridiculous.

Is it made of rubber or what?

This is a year old soon ❤

Even in the MLB if you hit it off the cap it rips. Even if they don’t see an actual rip they’ll get the ball out anyways.

im nine and i love how you throw can you teach me and you can cach so good i welly whut to be outfild oh and my name is conner

I believe the $2 balls you got were for 8u too so they probably weren’t meant for adult swing speed.

5:19 That sound! 🥵🥴😩

Im probably the first person to use the new zoom feature (3:32 am, november 2nd 2022)

Please do like cheap baseball pants and expensive baseball pants

And yet they all say "its a $5 baseball"

Tbh the goods is worse than the wood bat

As a coach for a top ten team in Ky and former player… work on your swing lol using only your shoulders stiff af it took about till the 8 min mark before you made clean swings.

The old the best

One min 🎉🎉🎉

If you don’t wanna buy official major-league baseballs just try to catch some at a baseball game

You should be in the master leage

I have bought a bucket of baseball balls for 12$