baseballs rubbed with dirt

Harvesting Baseball's 'Magic Mud'
MLB baseballs are treated with special dirt before being used. Where does this dirt come from? All MLB baseballs to be used in the game are rubbed down with
PhillyBurbs.com: Baseball's dirty little secret
3 Apr 2009 Two Washington Nationals batboys are rubbing brown gunk on dozens of new balls, toweling them off once the wet dirt cakes.
Where are baseballs used in major league baseball games sent to
14 Nov 1999 Here's the Dirt on Baseballs . By STEVE STRUNSKY he has already dirtied six dozen baseballs for the game, rubbing them with a special mud
baseball autograph : Project Autograph
17 Sep 2007 Is this really true and if so, where can one get some of this mud? It is true. Every Major League Baseball hase been rubbed down by Lena
Mud plays part in game of baseball - ESPN
Runners and fielders sprint, brake, slide and fall on the infield dirt through Before every game, they open a bag of regulation baseballs and rub the
How To Clean Baseballs | LIVESTRONG.COM
Where does the mud umpires rub on baseballs before? Ballfield dirt is blended of water and three grades of sediment-sand, silt and clay-to make possible the
Lena Blackburne Baseball Rubbing Mud
19 posts - 17 authors - Last post: 29 Oct 2009substances to rub baseballs -- tobacco juice, shoe polish, dirt from the baseball field or a combination -- but nothing
Ballfield Dirt
For nearly three quarters of a century, a special variety of Jersey muck, Lena Blackburne Baseball Rubbing Mud, has been removing the sheen from baseballs
Baseball's Magic Mud - KDAF
At the time, the mid-1930s, baseball teams used a variety of substances to
NGM Blog Central - Rubbing Mystery Mud on Major League Baseballs
22 Oct 2010 "In this high-tech age, it is wonderful that all major league baseballs are still rubbed up using this special mud from a secret,
Harvesting baseball's 'magic mud' - CNN
How To Clean Baseballs . The outer layer of a baseball is made of two pieces of Rub a small amount of saddle soap into the leather to remove dirt .
I saw an episode of " Dirty Jobs" that showed that all MLB
6 Apr 2009 Major League Baseball teams rub Lena Blackburne Baseball Rubbing Mud into their new baseballs to break them in. The mud comes from a secret
Here's the Dirt on Baseballs - New York Times
Baseball's Dirty Side Baseball. Today, “Lena Blackburne Baseball Rubbing Mud ” is still used throughout Major League Baseball to rough up the six or
MLB baseballs are treated with special dirt before being used
23 Oct 2008 Baseball legend Babe Ruth, for instance, has had his signature forged on old baseballs , then rubbed in dirt to make them appear to be from
The dirt on baseball / The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com
28 Oct 2009 "They tried tobacco juice, shoe polish, dirt from the infield and all being rubbed up because you just don't get a real good grip on it.