What Do They Use to Get Balls Game Ready? Find Out Here!

Card Magnet · Oct 28, 2009

I never knew this...Thank you CNN for finally putting up something good.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/28/baseba ... index.html

BigAppleJak · Oct 28, 2009

cool, I just picked up a new t-shirt....

darrend505 · Oct 28, 2009

Mike Rowe, from Discovery's Dirty Jobs, did a peice on this I think last season. He accompanied the guy on the mud run through everything til it gets to the teams.

Chris D. · Oct 28, 2009

I lived in Delran from 1975 to 1993. I have no idea where it is. :lol:

AKT74 · Oct 28, 2009

The first thing I do to get them ready for "game time" is wash them.

Sorry but I had to write something.

leatherman · Oct 28, 2009

When I was a batboy in AAA back in 1987, the umps would mud six dozen balls before each game. Two thirds of the time, it was enough. Occasionally, I would have to get the key from the ump and go to their locker room to get a few more dozen balls, and the can of mud. We would sit right outside the dugout, mudding the balls which would go into play. It was great, because we got to keep the balls we didn't mud. Sometimes, it was a dozen or two. I have plenty of autographs from back then on official International League balls, including Gregg Jefferies, Calvin Shiraldi, Dwight Gooden, Gary Carter (actually on an American Association ball), and Tom Seaver.

We would use one can for the entire season, and it was never even half gone before the season was over. A little mud goes a long way on pearl white baseballs.

David

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