Yes, they actually calculate this in wars when sending projectiles, whether a sniper rifle's bullet-calculations or a rocket-launcher (even NASA do that). Air has friction. Baseballs are designed very sleek, despite being overall spherical in shape, the material and entire design is streamlined for air to flow around the ball. While cue balls don't have material like tennis balls do, which directly help there to be some friction, they weigh more. Cricket balls can be thrown so brutally that they crack bones while baseballs tend to just bruise or cause internal bleeding at worst, but nor bone breakage that can kill. Cricket balls seem at first to support you, because snooker/billiards balls are designed similarly to cricket balls but here is the thing:

You could hurt someone worse if you threw a cricket and cue ball at them, full force but the actual ball would be travelling slower than the terrifying speed that a baseball would be travelling if you threw it as hard. The baseball's material is too soft to hurt the person the same way and the very thing that makes it faster; lighter weight, is the thing that prevents it breaking their bones as hard etc.

In the air, the friction has a nickname 'drag'.