It Worked!

Ingredients
Roughly 50 wet baseballs
Cooking Instructions
Lay baseballs out on cookie sheets
Bakes for 4-5 hours at 180 degrees
Let cool and enjoy!

Right off the top, I'm taking no real credit for this. This post is meant to spread the word that baking wet baseballs really did work. Here's the post by someone else I referenced when I decided to chance it:
www.youthbaseballinfo.com/restore-wet-ruined-baseballs-with-some-time-in-the-oven/#:~:text=Heat%20the%20oven%20to%20no,any%20damage%20to%20the%20balls.

Sometimes we call the weather right, sometimes we don't - we decided to hold camp Monday morning from 8am-10am despite knowing some rain was coming. The kids are just having so much fun, it's hard to cancel on them!

Of course - it did end up pouring, and we ended up with a really wet bucket of baseballs. Emergency!

Now, I've heard over the years that, rather than just let them be ruined and feel sorry for yourself, you can use your oven. "No big deal," coach Henry Zimmerman said yesterday, "Just bake 'em."

"How long? What temperature?"

"No idea. But it works." Good enough for me!

Results below - it worked great. Popped them in the oven at 180 degrees, left for a softball game. Came back about 4 hours later to dry, toasty baseballs in the oven. They felt a little dried out when I took them out, but by this morning when they had cooled they were in great shape. It's not enough to encourage me to just practice every day it's wet or raining, but in an emergency this was a huge win!