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 ...

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 ...

Baltimore Orioles clubhouse worker Sammy Sanchez rubs mud on a new baseball as the team prepares for the start of spring training, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Feb. 13, 2009. For years, a special mud ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Without a little mud, pitchers in the pro leagues wouldn't be able to put enough topspin on their pitches. It can't be just any mud, either. Since... Lena Blackburne Baseball is the only baseball ...

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.

In what might be an impossible search for consistency in how the major league ball plays, baseball has sent out a new memo and video detailing the process by which clubhouse attendants should apply ...

For years, a special mud has been rubbed on every baseball before every major league game to make it less slippery. The mud’s story dates to the 1930s, and MLB still relies on one small supplier. A ...