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

The unique properties of baseball's famed "magic" mud have never been scientifically quantified—until now. In a paper in ...

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

The research “gives a nice, scientific explanation at a range of length scales,” says Gareth McKinley, a rheologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who wasn’t involved with the ...

It was just mud. For decades, all the balls used in Major League Baseball have been coated with mud harvested from a secret spot along a Delaware River tributary in New Jersey. Only a few people ...

The unique properties of baseball's famed "magic" mud have never been scientifically quantified—until now. In a paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers at the ...

For years, a special mud has been rubbed on every baseball before every major league game to make it less slippery. The mud’s story dates to the 1930s, and MLB still relies on one small supplier.