One day we went out to the street to kick an orange save ball in the company of neighbors or brothers without suspecting that it would be the last time we would do it.
Those toys spherical were the delight of millions of mexicans who were children in the 80s or 90s, especially because they were cheap. Even so, there were some who found it difficult to have one at the very low price of 5 thousand pesos, like before.
Pelota Salver, a great childhood memory
Many had to make a deal among their friends on the block to buy a Saveothers obtained it as birthday gift or in Kings Dayothers not even on those dates because the economic situation at home was not easy.
That’s why it was sad that he struck out after falling into the glass of a tree of thorns or flying onto the roof of a less than cheerful neighbor who never returned them. For the first case there was always the illusion of being able to patch it, passing a match and hoping that the vinyl would melt covering the hole, which never happened.
Ball Saver, for soccer and even for baseball
So once it was punctured beyond repair, the children of the time used to take two paths: the first was to cut it in half and take two capsor, open it enough for the hand to enter and make a mitt with it to play tag. king of sports.
By the way, there were raptors who bought the Salver to turn it into a Baseball ballthey achieved this by removing the pivot and submerging the ball in boiling waterin this way it reduced its size exponentially.
The reason for the name Salver and the origin of the company
We don’t know why the Jalisco company Salver didn’t make a specific plastic baseball ball, but it did make others, like a white volleyball ball, but to be honest it was the same as the classic orange one created with the ball in mind. soccer.
Now a fact that no one knows, the name of this legendary plastic ballis due to a contraction of the name and surname of the founder of the brand, Salvador Vergaraalias “Pocho”, but nothing to do with a migration to USAbecause as far as is known he always lived in Jalisco.
Almost 20 years without the ball Save
It was there that he opened the factory in question, not to make balls, but first as a plastic pipe factory. It was a matter of time before they began to produce vinyl balls to sell to the mexican children and also to those from other latitudes of Latin America. Creating 20 tons of these toys a month.
However, in 2005, the company was sold to Michel Industrial Groupand that’s when they stopped making the iconic orange ball that we all remember.
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