Since the 1940s, baseball players have been spreading a special kind of “magic mud” on new baseballs to reduce the slick, glossy shine and give pitchers a firmer grip. Now, scientists at the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This year’s World Series may be over, but the sport has yet another success story that’s making headlines. This time, however, the ...

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 ...

“Day games are a little hectic," Walsh said. "If we have a day game that day, during the week, it's pretty hectic." Walsh has been a part of the team since 1984, where he started off doing maintenance ...

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 now ...

While it can’t be credited with winning the Los Angeles Dodgers their eighth World Series championship, baseball’s “magic mud” is the stuff of lore. Each Major League Baseball (MLB) team’s equipment ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Baltimore Orioles clubhouse worker Sammy Sanchez rubs mud on a new baseball as the team prepares for the start of spring training, ...

The unique properties of baseball’s famed “magic” mud have never been scientifically quantified — until now. In a new paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), researchers at ...