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

Shravan Pradeep and colleagues use a series of mechanical tests and advanced imaging techniques to understand how the mud ...

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

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 paper in ...

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

For more than 80 years, baseball has relied on a stash of special mud to take the shine off balls’ slick leather and give ...

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 ...

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.