Miracle mud : Lena Blackburne and the secret mud that changed baseball

ISBN: 0761380922 (library binding : alkaline paper)
ISBN: 9780761380924 (library binding : alkaline paper)
Physical Description: 1 volume, unpaged : color illustrations ; 26 cm print
Publisher: Minneapolis : Millbrook Press, [2013]
Copyright: &copy;2013

Kelly, David A. (David Andrew) 1964- (author.). Dominguez, Oliver, (illustrator.).

Summary: Lena Blackburne loved baseball. He watched it, 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.