Blackburne experimented with mud from a Delaware River tributary, not far from his New Jersey home, and found that it de-glossed the ball while mostly maintaining its whiteness. He now had a side job.

Baseball mud. Story by Bradford Lee ... New Jersey, and The Lena Blackburne Baseball Rubbing Mud Company was born. The American League was an early adopter of the mud and by the early 1950s, ...

PHILADELPHIA — Professional baseball has a strange pre-game ritual that’s been happening for almost 100 years: rubbing each pristine white baseball with special mud harvested from a secret ...

Baseball mud is part of the game’s mythology. Since the 1950s, ... harvesting the mud from a secret spot along a Delaware River tributary in New Jersey.

Blackburne found that mud in a still-secret location purportedly near Palmyra, New Jersey, and a baseball dynasty was born: Lena Blackburne Baseball Rubbing Mud.

Lena Blackburne Baseball Rubbing Mud has been harvested since the 1930’s by the Bintliff family in a secret location along the Delaware River estuary in southern New Jersey.

Dale Good spotted an unusual article, “Soft matter mechanics of baseball’s Rubbing Mud,’’ in the Nov. 4 LNP. He wondered if there is any association between contemporary baseball mud and ...

The “magic mud” has become quite famous thanks to its longtime use in Major League Baseball (MLB). In fact, it’s been applied to the baseballs for every game for more than 80 years.

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 ...

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.