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 ...

Not many fans walk through the home-plate entrance to Five County Stadium, which is not the most convenient entry from the gravel parking lots. They’re mostly regulars, along with employees and suite ...

This year’s World Series may be over, but the sport has yet another success story that’s making headlines. This time, however, the legend in question isn’t a player—it’s the famous “magic mud.” ...

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 ...

DELRAN, N.J. — The tide was out and there was nobody around, so Jim Bintliff stepped into the narrow gully and sank down to his ankles, in imminent danger of losing a sneaker to the muddy bottom. A ...

A 45-gallon rubber barrel sits in a cluttered garage along the Jersey Shore, filled waist-high with what looks like the world’s least appetizing chocolate pudding. It is nothing more than icky, gooey, ...

The spot is about 100 yards into the forest along the banks of a Delaware River waterway. It’s in Burlington County on Green Acres space, and Jim Bintliff has been coming to the same place for more ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — It’s a tradition that dates back to 1938. For more than 80 years, baseball teams have been coating each ball in Lena Blackburne Baseball Rubbing Mud. And there’s a good reason ...

Mar 1, 2015 Mar 1, 2015 Updated Mar 2, 2015 MUDDY — After his professional career came to a screeching halt after college, Brett Drone has found a way to give back to the game of baseball. Drone, 28, ...

The first groundball Chris Stepnowski fielded in his initial varsity practice after getting called up from the jayvee was supposed to be hit directly at the junior second baseman. Monroe High School ...

I suspect that when Lena Blackburne glanced down at his statistics, he came to the gut-wrenching conclusion that his numbers just might not be Hall-worthy. After all, with a .214 lifetime average, ...