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johnnyg08 Tue Oct 27, 2009 10:08pm

Baseball Mud
 
Interesting Video on the "magic mud"

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grunewar Wed Oct 28, 2009 04:54am

Neat story. Thanks for sharing.

"Here's mud in your eye." ;)

mick Wed Oct 28, 2009 06:53am

I thought the 'least senior' ump rubbed the mud on.

bob jenkins Wed Oct 28, 2009 07:55am

Quote:

Originally Posted by mick (Post 633244)
I thought the 'least senior' ump rubbed the mud on.

The clubbies do it now.

Kevin Finnerty Wed Oct 28, 2009 11:20am

One of my best buddies was a Giants batboy/clubbie in the '70s and '80s. He worked the umpire room off and on for three years. He said that he rubbed up the baseballs for every crew that came in. (He trained me.) A couple of the umpires monitored his work, but most of them just let him be. He was tipped by every umpire after every series, but the PU would tip him extra on the day of the game for rubbing up the baseballs.

So it's been the practice for at least 30 years. There may be a few that like to do it themselves, but I know that if I made six figures doing this gig, I'd be tipping a clubbie.

UMP25 Thu Oct 29, 2009 02:01pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by bob jenkins (Post 633249)
The clubbies do it now.

Actually, Bob, in MLB there are machines that do that now.


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