Job Description:

• 1) Inspects and grades baseballs or softballs and repairs defects, using handtools: Examines ball for defects, such as crooked, uneven or raised stitches, lumps, and irregular shapes.

• 2) Straightens crooked stitches by pulling or prying them into place with awl.

• 3) Places balls with raised stitches into bench press and clamps top of press to flatten stitches.

• 4) Pushes curved awl through seams to press and smooth lumps under cover of ball.

• 5) Weighs softballs on scale.

• 6) Grades baseballs according to model and quality, and grades softballs according to model, quality, and weight.

• 7) Rejects nonrepairable and misshaped balls.