How It’s Made: Baseballs.

via Kottke.

Quality wood, a few craftsman with serious skills, computer assisted design, and large machines in factories! Take a factory tour with player Graeme Swann in The Art of Bat Making… cricket bat making!

And if you’ve never seen it before, watch a few minutes of cricket here — South Africa vs New Zealand:

This Nike Better World promo video from 2012 shares the manufacturing process of how plastic bottles can turn into “the most advanced football jerseys on the planet.” (And by the way, that’s soccer/football, not American football.)

There are some excellent vids about plastics and sports in the archives. 

via Ecouterre.

Jiggling fruit on conveyor belts! Fratelli Indelicato is a company in Italy that makes citrus and tropical fruit processing equipment. Their series of demonstration videos gives us a better idea of how food travels from farms to our tables. Above, lemonade and lemon oil. Another highlight, pineapple juice extraction:

Filed under food, factories, and fun to watch, along with this video of mushroom processing in the archives.

Pliers! A How It’s Made minisode from the Science Channel. 

There are, by the way, a crazy amount of videos about how things are made in the archives.