Major League Baseball’s Dirty Mystery
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3 min readMay 5, 2022
No one connected with MLB knows exactly where it originates.
Those of us following Major League Baseball are familiar with the constant detective work of the umpires checking for the possibility of foreign substances with which pitchers “doctor” balls: little spit here, Vaseline there, Brylcream, fishing line oil, pine tar, sunscreen, KY jelly, the list goes…
