Thread:NoWayThisUsernameIsAlreadyOwnedBySomeone/@comment-24335865-20150627143737/@comment-26143371-20150704115441

Went through my town to search for your ball and found a feally small football next to Homer playing on his MyPad (Part 4 of the 4th July questline). I initially thought it was a typical graphics glitch, but wen I tapped it a "Ball collected" messages(similar to clearing friends handshakes) popped up. I didn't get anything in return.

A little digging in the files turned out, that
 * dropped balls can appear in three skins: as soccer ball, foot ball or beach ball
 * when collecting balls there is a 20% chance that you get another one in return
 * collecting and dropping balls is counted towards the community total