Are too many baryons being produced in e+e- annihilations

We suggest that statistical hadronization of quarks, including momentum and colour constraints, is at the origin of the large baryon production observed at PETRA and PEP. Simple, precise estimates are given and they seem to be in reasonable agreement with data. If the same mechanism operates when multi-jets are formed a further increase in fast baryon multiplicities as well as a spectacular rise in the cross section for producing only fast baryons will be seen. It is then tempting to relate the large baryon cross section in e+e- annihilation to the very high energy cosmic ray 'baryonic' (Centauro) events. (orig.)