For nearly 100 years every ball used in MLB has been rubbed down with a very particular variety of mud before use. The league is experimenting with alternatives but nothing has stuck yet. Wearing a ...

Lena Blackburne Baseball Rubbing Mud has been used since before the 1950s to improve the grip players can get on baseballs. But how the creamy, dark-brown material modifies the surface of baseballs ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — It’s a tradition that dates back to 1938. For more than 80 years, baseball teams have been coating each ball in Lena Blackburne Baseball Rubbing Mud. And there’s a good reason ...

For more than 80 years, baseball has relied on a stash of special mud to take the shine off balls’ slick leather and give fielders a better grip. The substance is rubbed on every baseball before every ...

It’s a tradition unlike any other. Earlier this year, NJ Advance Media’s Bob Klapisch profiled the New Jersey man who provides Major League Baseball with the mud used to rub up every baseball used in ...

Since the 1940s, baseball players have been spreading a special kind of “magic mud” on new baseballs to reduce the slick, glossy shine and give pitchers a firmer grip. Now, scientists at the ...

Dale Good spotted an unusual article, “Soft matter mechanics of baseball’s Rubbing Mud,’’ in the Nov. 4 LNP. He wondered if there is any association between contemporary baseball mud and mud that ...

LONGPORT, New Jersey (WPVI) -- It's a dirty job, but somebody's got to do it for America's pastime. Jim Bintliff is a self-described "mud guy." He harvests and processes the mud that helps pitchers ...

This is the magic mud, photographed on Wednesday, April 13, 2022 in Longport, N.J. The baseballs used in every Major League Baseball game are prepped with mud from New Jersey. Lena Blackburne Baseball ...

“Day games are a little hectic," Walsh said. "If we have a day game that day, during the week, it's pretty hectic." Walsh has been a part of the team since 1984, where he started off doing maintenance ...

LONGPORT, N.J. -- It's a dirty job, but somebody's got to do it for America's pastime. Jim Bintliff is a self-described "mud guy." He harvests and processes the mud that helps pitchers get a grip.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Baltimore Orioles clubhouse worker Sammy Sanchez rubs mud on a new baseball as the team prepares for the start of spring training, ...