For over eight decades, baseball has depended on a peculiar yet essential substance: Lena Blackburne Baseball Rubbing Mud. This unique mud, sourced from a clandestine location along a tributary of the ...

Baseball mud is part of the game’s mythology. Since the 1950s, it has been dug up along the Delaware River and applied to ...

While it can’t be credited with winning the Los Angeles Dodgers their eighth World Series championship, baseball’s “magic mud ...

Baseball has a muddy secret. For over 80 years, a mysterious mud sourced from an undisclosed New Jersey river location has ...

It has just the right mix of spreadability, stickiness, and friction to give pitchers a better grip on the ball.

This year’s World Series may be over, but the sport has yet another success story that’s making headlines. This time, however ...

The unique properties of baseball’s famed “magic” mud have never been scientifically quantified — until now. In a new paper ...

A new study from the University of Pennsylvania quantifies the unique properties of baseball's magic mud, confirming its ...

Scientists analyzed baseball's "magic" mud, uncovering unique texture and adhesive properties. It grips like sandpaper yet spreads like cream.

Lena Blackburne Baseball Rubbing Mud has been used since before the 1950s to improve the grip players can get on baseballs.

The unique properties of baseball's famed "magic" mud have never been scientifically quantified—until now. In a paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers at the ...

The unique properties of baseball's famed 'magic' mud, which MLB equipment managers applied to every ball in the World Series, have never been scientifically quantified -- until now. Researchers ...