Thursday, March 5, 2015

Help Wanted: No Robots Need Apply

It may be that someday the last job requiring actual human beings may be stitching baseballs for use in the big leagues. Unfortunately for Americans, the work is done in Costa Rica.
The average baseball is only used for a few pitches in the U.S. Major Leagues, but for the Costa Ricans who make them each ball is the result of hours of painstaking stitching by hand. 
For 10 hours a day, workers at the world's only factory authorized to supply Major League Baseball, in the town of Turrialba in central Costa Rica, sit at desks yanking strands of waxy red fiber to form each baseball's 108 stitches.
Apparently, efforts have been made to automate the stitching process, but the results have been deemed unsatisfactory.

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