NPB admits changing ball for current season

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in Tokyo in August 2010 shows Nippon Professional Baseball commissioner Ryozo Kato showing off a new ball, as well as its cross section, to be used by the 12 professional baseball teams of the Japanese Central and Pacific leagues from the 2011 season. NPB admitted June 11, 2013, that it had changed its official ball prior to the start of the current season, which has seen markedly more home runs.

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