Baden Ballistic Leather Pitching Machine Baseballs | Durable Leather Construction for Consistent Performance, 12-Pack

Great balls, highly recommended

I'm really surprised by the one-star reviews. We have 11 dozen of these balls for home use with our Yeti2 machine. The baseball facility we practice at weekly also has countless buckets of these which we put through the hack attacks over and over and over again. Any regular type of ball would be shredded within a few days, but I can genuinely say the balls at our facility have help up no problem at over 2 months now. I did see one ball with a ripped seam but that's it. I'm very curious as to what exactly someone is doing to these balls to destroy them. They fly as true as any leather machine ball I have used, so I'm curious if people with problems in flight just don't know how to adjust machines properly. Additionally, during facility practice we skid these at warp speed across the turf non-stop and the balls just keep going. Of course, they are going to fall apart eventually but these are as good as you are going to get with leather balls. I'm writing this Jan 2026 so, maybe the balls have improved if there were true problems at all?

Balls already started ripping after a few weeks

These are fine once you have your machine dialed in. I like the Jugs more, but they are twice the cost and I just can't justify paying that much. Bought the Jugs when they were around the price of these Baden balls. My boys like the Jugs more off the machine, so I'll give these 4 stars since they're not as good. But they seem to hold up decently well and I hope to get a long life out of them.

Excellent ball to feed through the Junior Hack Attack machine. Very durable, have used for many many BP sessions and no seam tears, real leather still in great shape and no residue left on wheels of machine like some other PM balls. Balls fly true and really mimics a pitched ball on breaking balls. Highly recommended. Amazon needs to keep these in stock!

We've used these balls for approximately 10 batting practice sessions so far. Son hits from 60-100 pitches each session. We bought 60 balls, so each ball has been through the machine somewhere between 10-15 times. Our machine is the Spinball 2 wheel machine. So far, they have held up well. They are as accurate as you can expect from baseballs thrown by a pitching machine (that is, they are mostly in the strike zone, but not as consistent as dimple balls, which we also have and use). They have held up quite well so far. We've only had one ball damaged by the wheels to date (ripped along the seam).

I own a small facility and tried these balls using mainly on tee and machine. I bought 36 and on average each lesson a player will have approximately 100 hits, so each ball is hit about 3x per session. In 3 weeks with 300 hits per ball many are cut and seams beginning to come out. If you have machines covered and the balls only receive bat and net contact you can probably do a little better than that. For individual home use I think you can expect about 8-15 hours of use before cutting and seam problems. I thought the low seams would be an advantage and have truer flight out of the machine but honestly the higher seam Wilson A1010pro is more consistent (but ouch they are expensive)

We used these baseballs for the Hack attack Junior patient machine. If flies true and gives the real baseball field with hitting.

Well made, durable ball