Baseball has a muddy secret. For over 80 years, a mysterious mud sourced from an undisclosed New Jersey river location has become an essential part of every Major League Baseball game. Known as ...

For a World Series that was supposed to feature an epic battle between sluggers Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani, guys like Mark ...

Baseball mud is part of the game’s mythology. Since the 1950s, it has been dug up along the Delaware River and applied to ...

I’m back! A big thank you to Jon Caramanica, Marc Tracy and Dave Renard, the three guest playlisters who filled in for me while I took a few weeks off. The Amplifier returns to its regular schedule ...

For more than 80 years, baseball has relied on a stash of special mud to take the shine off balls’ slick leather and give ...

Scenes from game two of University of Georgia Baseball's Fall World Series at Athens Academy's Jansen Field in Athens, ...

During the celebration Dodgers catcher Will Smith was approached by MLB to authenticate the ball that got the final out. "I ...

For real. I knew everything about Major League Baseball. And then along came Fernando Valenzuela. He didn’t look like a baseball player — he was “stout,” to be diplomatic. He didn’t ...

Former Los Angeles Dodgers star Fernando Valenzuela, one of the sport's most loved figures, died on Tuesday at the age of 63, the Major League Baseball club said in a statement. The Mexican ...

The New York Yankees are back in the World Series for the first time in 15 years. A tenth-inning blast from Juan Soto in Game 5 of the ALCS on Saturday night led the Yankees to a pennant-clinching ...

For the Guardians, who last won the World Series in 1948, baseball's longest title drought continues for at least another year. What's next: One way or another, we are headed for a classic big ...