Miracle Mud: Lena Blackburne and the Secret Mud That Changed Baseball

Miracle Mud: Lena Blackburne and the Secret Mud That Changed Baseball by Kelly, David A.. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780761380924.

Lena Blackburne loved baseball. He watched it, he played it, he coached it. But he didnt love the ways players broke in new baseballs. Tired of soggy, blackened, stinky baseballs, he found a better way. Thanks to a well-timed fishing trip and a top-secret mud recipe, Lena Blackburne Baseball Rubbing Mud was born. For seventy-five years, baseball teams have used Lenas magic mud to prepare baseballs before every game. Read the story of how Lenas mud went from a riverbank to the major leagues and all the way to the Hall of Fame.