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

Shravan Pradeep and colleagues use a series of mechanical tests and advanced imaging techniques to understand how the mud interacts with baseballs. Their findings reveal that Rubbing Mud alters the ...

With the baseball season recently coming to a very disappointing end for most of us New Yorkers (as a Mets fan I’m still ...

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’s ‘Magical’ Mud: M.L.B. has been coating baseballs with mud harvested from a secret spot for decades. Now ...

Up by a stroke on the 72nd hole at the Dubai Creek Resort, McIlroy of Northern Ireland found the water with his tee shot, ...

For decades, all the baseballs used in MLB games have been covered with mud harvested from a secret location along a Delaware ...

The Glass City was named as the No. 2 minor league sports market by Street & Smith's Sports Business Journal magazine, ...

The baseball, this magical orb, the actual baseball, Angell’s small miracle of design and utility, has not essentially ...

Everyone else might remember the switch-hitting Rose for playing on three World Series winners, or being the National League ...

Apple's expansion into the sporting world has spanned media rights, sponsorship and dedicated apps. Now it's supplying iPads ...

In a way, college athletics enters the next phase of its evolution into a more professionalized entity this week as the early ...