He’s Baseball’s Only Mud Supplier. It’s a Job He May Soon Lose. - The New York Times

Jim Bintliff collects the Delaware River mud that is smeared on Major League baseballs to make them less slippery. But that tradition is in jeopardy.

Bintliff, 65, served in the Navy and worked for decades as a printing-press operator, but the mystical mud remained a constant in his life. Even now, he sees himself as he was in 1965, a rail-thin bo… [+889 chars]

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