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

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For decades, all the baseballs used in MLB games have been covered with mud harvested from a secret location along a Delaware ...

Douglas Jerolmack, a professor of earth and environmental science at the University of Pennsylvania, on new research suggesting that mud used on baseballs could also benefit the development of ...

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

The unique properties of baseball’s famed “magic” mud have never been scientifically quantified — until now. In a new paper ...

“This is the magical thing: It spreads like face cream and grips like sandpaper,” said Douglas Jerolmack, a professor of earth and environmental science at the University of Pennsylvania and ...

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Scientists unveil the long-mysterious qualities of baseball’s “magic” mud, which every MLB team uses on game balls. The unique properties of baseball’s famed “magic” mud have never been scientifically ...

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In a new paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), researchers at the University of Pennsylvania ...