Field Hockey Ball 

by Lydia Dolly

L.M.Dolly@iup.edu

A field Hockey ball can be any color in the book. They can come in colors from white, to gold, to multi-colored. The ball is round and about the size of a baseball. Although it is round like a baseball, it is not as soft as a baseball. It is very hard. Almost like a jawbreaker. The reason it is so hard is because of the plastic they use to make it. Most of the balls were made in Pakistan and sold by field Hockey companies such as TK, Penn Mento, Cranberry, Stag, STX and etc. It is an extremely durable and hard plastic and it will hurt if you get hit by one coming at you very fast. There has been very many cases where a player has gotten hit in the eye and had to get stitches. Players have also broken fingers, teeth, gotten knocked unconscious. The ball has no center. You can not see this but if you think about it they can not really have a completely plastic ball or it would weigh a ton and it would be hard to hit with a stick. The ball may feel rough but that is because it has been hit so many times. The ball is not anything like a piece of paper or a pin. It is not even close to a football. If anything, the closest object it could be would be a very small bowling ball for extremely small people. The only way this ball will never be used again is if it gets hit by a stick to hard and either breaks in half or the center of the ball will shatter. Why this object you say. Well, it is what sport is I play and I know that no one else will have the ball because it is not a common object to have in a room.