Baseball's Magical Mud

Tonight we went to a Bee's game with some people from my work. I have been taking a class called Baseball 101, from the Carmelo School of Hardball. Anthony is the professor and Ben, Linda and I are his students. (That's right, your tax dollars hard at work.) I am of course his star pupil :). It has been fun learning more of the ins and outs of baseball. One of the things I learned about is this special magical mud. Lena Blackburne who played for the White Sox and then managed the Philedelphia Athletics discovered this mud in New Jersey that when rubbed on a new baseball would take the shine off the ball, but not dirty the ball like regular ordinary dirt or mud would. He began marketing his mud and now 80 years later all Major and Minor League teams use the magic mud, the exact location has never been disclosed and remains a family secret. I am FASCINATED with the mud. We had awesome seats--front row, right behind home plate, (Thanks Dad), so I asked the ball boys about the mud and even got them to let me hold the mud (I promised not to contaminate it) so I could take a picture. They thought I was so wierd. But then again so did my husband, brother and co-workers. I however LOVED it---anything for a picture, right KC?! I was even more excited when I read the label on the mud and it even said "Baseball's Magic Mud" I knew it!!! It really IS magic! I must say the evening was loads of fun---just how big was my hot dog?