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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Study confirms what MLB players have long professed: that the magic mud works and is not simply a superstition.

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