For over eight decades, baseball has depended on a peculiar yet essential substance: Lena Blackburne Baseball Rubbing Mud.

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

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

The unique properties of baseball's famed "magic" mud have never been scientifically quantified—until now. In a paper in ...

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

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

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

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, which MLB equipment managers applied to every ball in the World Series, have never been scientifically quantified -- until now. Researchers ...