Why is a basketball orange in color?
(the ABA and the WNBA models aside, as those were done purely for marketing purposes)
Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.
They grow that way. They’re a squash closely related to pumpkins, and are harvested annually from a basketball farm in New Hampshire. Why do you think the game is played in the winter?
The Dave-Guy
“since my daughter’s only half-Jewish, can she go in up to her knees?” J.H. Marx
I think the color is derived from the color of tanned leather. But it looks like they “hotted” it up a bit. Maybe to make it more visible – more contrast with the hardwood floor.
“To do her justice, I can’t see that she could have found anything nastier to say if she’d thought it out with both hands for a fortnight.”
Dorothy L. Sayers
Busman’s Honeymoon
If you see pictures of old basketballs, they are more the color of (American) footballs. Really old ones had laces on the outside which made dribbling difficult.
Basketballs have gotten more orange as time has gone on.
As Pluto said…but not against the floor as such, but to make them more visable to the spectators.
If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S. Truman