I just got to wondering if your Spearmint loses its flavour on the bed post over night, do tennis balls lose their bounce in time? Well, the simple answer to this question is "yes", but, how much and how fast? Let us get brand specific. From now on, I am going to talk about Wilson Tennis Balls.
After they are manufactured, they are packed in pressurized cans to enable the balls to keep their bounce. After opening a can, the rebound of the balls decreases over time due to pressure loss. The lose rate is about .032 to .038 inches (just a slightly over thirty second of an inch) per day. Therefore, if your can of tennis balls has been opened for a month, they will lose about an inch of bounce. So, after awhile, a second use must be found for them or you could just throw them away. If I throw one, my dogs will run after it and bring it back. So, not only do they bounce but they return to thrower. . .
How did Wilson Tennis Balls get its name? Funny you should ask that. Way back in 1913 a Chicago based meat packing firm Schwartzchild and Sulzberger created the Ashland Mfg Company as a subsidiary to sell violin strings, surgical sutures, and strings for tennis racquets which are all by-products of animal guts. It soon branched out to making sporting goods including tennis racquets. In 1914, a New York banking firm took over the company and selected Tom Wilson to manage the company. The reason they picked Wilson was because they were planning to name the company Wilson and Company to cash in on president Woodrow Wilson's popularity. It has changed its name and ownership a few times since then. As Paul Harvey said, "Now you know the rest of the story". This information didn't come from Paul Harvey, but from Joey Greens Magic Brands book. As always, have a great day, you hear?
morning, Dizzy ;) now, I know something else I didn't know. hey ho!
ReplyDeleteOnce more I found some information I can add to my warehouse of trivial facts. Love this king of information!
ReplyDeleteI only know that a tennis ball loses its bounce real fast when one's dog sinks his teeth in it... and pulls off the cover... piece by piece. Say... when did they start making them those florescent colors? Used to be only fuzzy white...
ReplyDeleteYes, we all work better under pressure.
ReplyDeleteCarolyn, glad I could teach you something.
ReplyDeleteH.J., Trivial facts come from a trivial person. No, actually a knowledgeablel trivial person. . .
The Odd Essay, yep, and they pick up dog hair. Some of our dogs' tennis balls have grown beards.
Jimkabob, Not me. I blow my whistle to let off steam. But if I were a tennis ball, I would be happy packed in pressurizd cans.
I used to have a large collection of "dead" tennis balls. There were great from juggling and I'd get them for free. Apparently they were good for losing too, as I've only a few left kicking around.
ReplyDeleteYep, there are lots of uses for dead tennis balls, like stuck on the legs of a walker to make it slide better. I have a long list of alterniative uses, but didn't want to bore anyone.
DeleteLearned something new on this post and that is always a good thing.
ReplyDeleteFunny was thinking I wish I had my old tennis balls so I could put them on mom's walker legs but alas they are in Houston :(
Her legs or the tennis balls? (grin) They do work well, my Mom used them.
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