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

Baseball has a muddy secret. For over 80 years, a mysterious mud sourced from an undisclosed New Jersey river location has ...

Cody Stashak debuted in the majors in 2019 with the Minnesota Twins and played with the team through 2022, before undergoing ...

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 ...

Baseball has a muddy secret. For over 80 years, a mysterious mud sourced from an undisclosed New Jersey river location has become an essential part of every Major League Baseball game. Known as ...

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.

Baltimore Orioles clubhouse worker Sammy Sanchez rubs mud on a new baseball as the team prepares for the start of spring training, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Feb. 13, 2009. For years ...

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 ...