KBX is a large tasty orange. And as I recall Kellogg's Breakfast, Nebraska Wedding, and Kentucky Beefsteak are pretty good too.

Baseball, huh? Andrew Rahart's Jumbo Red, German Red Strawberry, Neve's Azorean Red, Red Barn, Milka's Red Bulgarian, and Danko to name a few. Do a search for favorite "X" tomato. Where x is the variable you are looking for, such as red. The questions have been asked often.

Your mileage may vary.

Betsy

Yellow/orange:

Earl of Edgecombe, deep orange
Jaune Flammee, deep orange
Aunt Gertie's Gold, is
Kellogg's Breakfast or KBX ( PL KB)

ruby red, ( about)size of baseball:

Druzba
Break O Day
Red Brandywine ( watch seed sources on this one)
St. Pierre

And lots of other choices for both color classes.

Bets, it seems to me that quite a few you mentioned for your reds are way bigger than baseball size, like all of them, at least grown by me ( smile). And I've become aware that there's some wrong Andrew Rahart's Jumbo Red seed out there.

My seed for ARJR was from John Rahart, Andrew's son, so I know what it should be. I've been asked to go through my old seeds to find mine, that are what the variety should be. I'm not saying that ALL seed sources for this variety are no good and I don't know the specific seed source involved, either a trade or from a commercial source.

One of the reasons I've never thrown out ONE of my saved seeds is b'c there are quite a few varieties that have kind of morphed into what they shouldn't be. Sigh.

Yesterday I sent seeds to someone and they were from 1993 and I just had someone ask for my NAR seeds, specificaly the ones from 2003.

Carolyn

I heard that sungold cherry tomato is very yummy. It's very sweet.

Two more suggestions for your mother's tomato: Big Beef (hybrid)or Sioux. Sioux is one of my very favorite tomatoes.

For a baseball size, tomatoey tasting tom, look into Siletz or Legend. Nearly seedless, a bit on the sweet side, early season, determinate.

Mike

I've tried a number of tomatoes listed here, but production/taste was not worth repeating. Every garden is different. I've learned to expect different things from different varieties. I get great production from Sweet Tangerine (a yellow/orange Burpee hybrid), incredible flavor from Sun Gold cherry. Heard great reviews on Lemon Boy, but was totally disappointed in the flavor even though it had great production.

for the red baseball sized - Clint Eastwood's Rowdy Red, Mule Team, Sioux, Chesapeake, Arkansas Traveler - all nice sized & productive for us in that size range -

for the "best/most exciting? yellow-orange - KBX has been hands down our favorite followed closely by Arkansas Marvel (big tasty bi-color that is beautiful), Tom's Yellow Wonder (for a pale yellow that actually has a taste), Virginia Sweets (beautiful tasty bicolor that would be more productive if we weren't quite so miserably hot & humid & droughty here).

Hope that helps - those reds are on our annual must have lists (as is the much much larger & irregularly shaped ARJR)