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

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 ...

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.

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For more than 80 years, baseball has relied on a stash of special mud to take the shine off balls’ slick leather and give fielders a better grip. The substance is rubbed on every baseball before every ...

For more than 80 years, baseball has relied on a stash of special mud to take the shine off balls’ slick leather and give fielders a better grip. The substance is rubbed on every baseball before ...

When applied to a baseball, this means that the mud forms an even, pore-filling coating on the ball’s leather surface. Atomic force microscopy showed that the mud leaves an adhesive layer on the ball, ...