Baseball's drug problems are as durable as horsehide, and A-Rod's Primobolan boosters were arguably less dangerous than Mickey Mantle's experiences with booze and speed.
Smudges on the horsehide as Carter plays hardball "You take the high road and we'll take the low road," is the advice a presidential candidate usually gets.
Its horsehide cover conceals a cork core wrapped in two layers of rubber and 490 machine-wound yards of five kinds of yarn.
A Don McCormack column: Easton well-armed for debut Though blessed with rocket-like left arm, one that can hurl a horsehide sphere at 90 mph from 60 feet, 6 inches, Brandon Easton has been kept at arm’s length from seeing action in his first baseball game as a professional.
July 2, 2013 - Star Beacon
Ian Tyson in Great Falls Tribune Canadian Ian Tyson wrote "The Gift" about Russell's artistic technique - how he could "paint the light on horsehide shining ...... and the twisting wrist of the Houlihan throw."