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

Type

Book

Authors

David A. Kelly

ISBN 10

0761380922

ISBN 13

9780761380924

Tags

Baseball, Lena Blackburne, Level O, Biography

Description

Lena Blackburne loved baseball. He watched it, he played it, he coached it. But he didn't 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 Lena's magic mud to prepare baseballs before every game. Read the story of how Lena's mud went from a riverbank to the major leagues and all the way to the Hall of Fame. - from Amzon

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