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Plastic Baseballs

Maybe

An estimated 1.4% of orders come back. But shoppers spend an estimated $72K a year here, so Plastic Baseballs is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
54
54 / 100
Top 25% of 8,101 Sports & Outdoors niches · +7 vs the category median of 47
Market size
$72K/yr59K searches / yr
90-day growth
+69.0%search demand this quarter
Competition
63%top-5 click share · 13 brands · 33 sellers

Flapen Score

Plastic Baseballs against its category

The dotted line is the Sports & Outdoors average. Past it, Plastic Baseballs is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

54Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Plastic Baseballs market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Plastic Baseballs 59K times last year and spent an estimated $72K. The top 5 brands take 82% of clicks. Demand peaks in Apr–May–Jun. Flapen scores it 54 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 7.3% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 59K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 7.3% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +69.0% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $72K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
59K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+69.0%
Conversion, latest week
7.3%
Market size, estimated
$72Ka year
Peak month
May4.6× the quietest month
Top search term
plastic baseballs40K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $16.84.

Listings sell for $16.84 on average, from $7.82 to $49.36. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 5K to 6K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At $16.84 that is $2K to $4K a year per listing.

Average price
$16.84inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$7.82–$49.36
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
5K–6K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
$2K–$4K
Returns
1.4%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

88% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 8.4% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #69 within Baseball. It carries 1,246 reviews at 4.61 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
88%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
8.4%
Average rank
#69in Baseball
Average rating
4.61 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
1,246per listing
Listings tracked
24

04 · Newcomers

Brands here are settling in.

The brands on the shelf have sold for 59 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
0
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
59 months

Products

Top Plastic Baseballs products & what they sell for

The products selling here, as shoppers see them on Amazon. Shelf share and sales are our estimates.

Prices and ratings read from Amazon on Jul 25, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 63% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

$0$7K$14K$22K$29K101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

13 flat

Sellers

33

Est. top-5 brand share

82%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

63%

Top 20: 95%

Open market

13%

  • Franklin Sports34%
  • Easton25%
  • Liberty Imports12%
  • Magicorange7%
  • GoSports5%
  • Coopay5%
  • Open — no brand owns it (7 brands, 13%)

Demand

Plastic Baseballs search demand

Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.

3K2KHoliday '24Spike '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Apr, May, Jun · busiest ÷ quietest = 4.6×

Search terms

Top Plastic Baseballs search terms shoppers use

The exact words shoppers type, with estimated yearly volume, growth, and conversion.

  • plastic baseballs40K/yr
  • plastic baseballs for kids9K/yr
  • plastic baseball10K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Plastic Baseballs

We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.

19%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
24%of negative reviews mention “Durability”
1.4%of orders come back
“one has already tore”
A buyer, on “Durability”24% of negative reviews mention the same topic

Every topic

Every topic buyers talk about, one row each.

Red shows the share of negative reviews and green the share of positive reviews, biggest topic first. Open a row to read what they wrote.

21 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Plastic Baseballs questions

Answered from the same tracked data.

Figures on this page are estimates modeled from public Amazon pages and third-party keyword data. Amazon does not supply them, and no connected seller's data is used. How we handle Amazon data