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Miracle mud : Lena Blackburne and the secret mud that changed baseball
Record details
- ISBN: 0761380922 (library binding : alkaline paper)
- ISBN: 9780761380924 (library binding : alkaline paper)
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Physical Description:
1 volume, unpaged : color illustrations ; 26 cm
print - Publisher: Minneapolis : Millbrook Press, [2013]
- Copyright: ©2013
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| Subject: | Baseball United States Equipment and supplies Inventors Biography Baseball players Biography Blackburne, Lena 1886-1968 |
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- 0 of 1 copy available at Kenton County.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Covington Branch | J B B6285k (Text) | 33126018786255 | JBiography | Checked out | 04/19/2024 |
- Baker & Taylor
Traces the invention of Lena Blackburne Baseball Rubbing Mud by longtime baseball fan, player and coach Russell Aubrey "Lena" Blackburne, describing how his distaste for the methods used by players to break in baseballs prompted his creation and how, for more than 75 years, teams have been using the Hall of Fame-noted product to prepare baseballs before every game. - Baker & Taylor
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.
- Baker & Taylor
Profiles the life of the baseball player who discovered that mud worked better than dirty water for breaking in baseballs.