Baden's patented Cushion Control Technology™ consists of thousands of tiny air cells that form a cushioned carcass. Competitors use a solid rubber compound. CCT™ provides a softer feel and gives the ball a truer bounce and longer life. Top-Grade, full grain leather creates a more durable cover while our innovative leather tanning process softens the leather reducing sting. We use the lightest bladder possible, providing optimum weight and performance with a blended cotton wrap ensuring maximum shape retention. At Baden, we’ve spent decades refining the feel of the game. That journey led to our Stealth Soft-Valve System, engineered to eliminate the inconsistent bounce and hard touch of traditional valve designs. By embedding the valve deeper and softening the panel around it, we created a ball with truer flight, better control, and a smoother feel. It’s not just a small tweak. It’s a game-changing difference. Passionate sports players and fans, founder E.C. Schindler and his son, Michael Schindler, were unsatisfied with the quality of balls available on the market; players deserved a better experience. By learning every detail about how a ball is made and through rigorous testing, they started producing sports balls that were like nothing the market had seen; balls of high quality and great value. With innovation as its driving factor, Baden asked, "How do we make the game better for the player?" Baden's first major innovation in sports was creating the women's sized basketball, becoming the first athletic ball manufacturer to produce the women's ball, adopted by the NCAA in 1984. Since this achievement, Baden has innovated countless technologies for basketball, volleyball, soccer, football, baseball, and softball, including Axe baseball and softball bats, a line of ergonomic bats, which are changing the face of the game. That same question and approach is how Baden views the start of any new product. Baden doesn't create "me too" products, but carefully analyzes each component of a ball or sports accessory, looking to optimize it for as close to perfect a user experience as possible for the player. Create products that athletes love, inspiring play in all we do. "Remember, quality is important" was the signature phrase of our founder and it continues to drive our approach to product and service every day. We live and breathe sports and we are obsessed with honoring the athlete. We communicate with honesty, act with integrity. We strive to be the best. We will not compromise. We are here to win.  Collaboration with our customers, partners and teammates is critical to our success. We are One Team, Winning Together.