The Baseball

Did you know that teams in the MLB hire a person just to rub mud onto a baseball?

This is true, because when a baseball is brand new, the leather doesn't have enough grip for pitchers to hold on to. So these people rub a mixture of mud and a liquid, nobody knows exactly what the liquid is because its a secret part of the recipe, so that the pitchers can have just enough grip on the ball. In the 60's and 70's, they used to just rub either dirt or mud on the ball, until they the batter's complained because they counld not see the ball therefore they had trouble hitting it. The MLB tried as many things to get grip as they could, but everything they tried either had too much grip, or was too dark for the batter to see. Then someone came up with the mixture of mud and the special liquid as the perfect thing to rub on the baseballs to get grip and not be to dark so that the players can see them.