For one, the bags would get dirty and add more mud and dirt to the balls at the bottom over the course of the game, leading to an inconsistency in color. That’s partially why the new rules ...

Official MLB baseballs are an iconic symbol of American sports. Every significant moment in the game's history has a baseball related to it. The ball that Aaron Judge hit for his 62nd home run is ...

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 ...

In their quest to make balls more consistent, MLB executives have tried to come up with a substitute for the New Jersey mud that's applied to every baseball used in major league games.

We didn’t need to rub those balls with mud, they got plenty dirty of their own accord. Major League Baseball has a rule for this, 4.01(c), which states that all baseballs “shall be properly ...

For nearly 100 years every ball used in MLB has been rubbed down with a very particular variety of mud before use. The league is experimenting with alternatives but nothing has stuck yet.

Speculation is running rampant again over juiced balls as the Los Angeles Dodgers and Houston Astros have broken the all-time marks for home runs during a World Series and in an entire postseason.

Item 1 of 5 Umpiring officials display a baseball as they rub baseballs with mud prior to a game during the Tokyo 2020 Olympics at the Yokohama Baseball Stadium in Yokohama, Japan July 30, 2021.

If MLB moves to create a uniform foreign substance or a pre-tacked ball, similar to the ones used in Nippon Professional Baseball, it would likely mean the end of baseball’s long traditional mud ...

The “magic mud” has become quite famous thanks to its longtime use in Major League Baseball (MLB). In fact, it’s been applied to the baseballs for every game for more than 80 years.

Baseball America reported last September that MLB would introduce a pre-tacked prototype ball in certain Triple-A games late in the 2021 season, and Drellich writes that one of the substances ...

For years, a special mud has been rubbed on every baseball before every major league game to make it less slippery. The mud’s story dates to the 1930s, and MLB still relies on one small supplier.