How a baseball is made has always intrigued me, which has led to developing Baseball Leadership as a model and philosophy of leadership. Two layers of rubber are wrapped around a core made of cork called a “pill” and then wrapped with over 300 yards of three types of wool string before finally being covered by two pieces of white cowhide and sewn together with 108 stitches of red cotton thread. The process of wrapping the wool string around the rubber-coated pill is done by machine, so the yarn remains under constant pressure. I see the process of how a baseball is made and the resulting product as a fitting illustration of this leadership philosophy and model.