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- In the 1960's Sherrin produced 600-800 leather balls a week. In 2007 Sherrin can produce that amount a day and still find it hard to keep up with demands
- It takes 22 minutes to produce a Sherrin football from start to finish
- There are 23 steps in the production process to develop the perfect Sherrin football
- Sherrin produced cricket balls that were used in the infamous bodyline series in the 1930's
- Syd Sherrin (Son of Tom) won the Victorian Amateur Featherweight Championship in 1909 and 1910. Syd Sherrin went on to become one of Australia's leading boxing
referees and represented Australia at the Sydney Empire Games in 1938, now referred to as the Commonwealth Games
- Tom Sherrin served as Collingwood President from 1963 to 1974. In that time Collingwood played in three Grandfinals without success
- Still today all Sherrin Leather balls are made in Australia
- The Sherrin production team today collectively has over 200 years experience and one staff member has been making balls for 31 years
- Custom made balls today make up half of the total units produced in leather footballs
- Today there are over 200 different styles of Sherrin footballs in the range
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