Any knowledgeable baseball fan will tell you that the big league baseball teams never use brand new baseballs in a game. They're too shiny to play with. So, what do umpires use to prep the balls and dull the shine? Please be as specific as possible.|||MLB's official game ball preparation calls for umpires to rub the balls with a rubbing mud, which is smooth and creamy, but with a fine grit. The composition of the mud is a closely held secret, but the base ingredient is known to be mud from a specific site in a tributary of the Delaware River.
It is also known as "Mississippi Mud".
Nowadays, it's usually the bat boys or a clubhouse person who rubs the baseballs with the mud - overseen by an umpire.
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