Full name: Miracle Mud: Lena Blackburne and the Secret Mud That Changed Baseball

Author: David A. Kelly Year: 2012 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Children, Picture books, Non Fiction, Biographies Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780761380924 0761380922

Lena Blackburne loved baseball. He watched it, he played it, he coached it. But he didn't love the ways players broke in new baseballs. Tired of soggy, blackened, stinky baseballs, he found a better way. Thanks to a well-timed fishing trip and a top-secret mud recipe, Lena Blackburne Baseball Rubbing Mud was born. For seventy-five years, baseball teams have used Lena's magic mud to prepare baseballs before every game. Read the story of how Lena's mud went from a riverbank to the major leagues and all the way to the Hall of Fame. Similar books: The Last Boy by Jane Leavy Sandy Koufax by Jane Leavy The Kid by Ben Bradlee, Jr. Willie Mays by James S. Hirsch The Last Hero by Howard Bryant Joe DiMaggio by Richard Ben Cramer Stan Musial by George Vecsey Luckiest Man by Jonathan Eig You Never Heard of Sandy Koufax?! by Jonah Winter Babe by Robert W. Creamer Jackie Robinson by Arnold Rampersad The Streak by Barb Rosenstock Clemente by David Maraniss Satchel by Larry Tye Mighty Jackie by Marissa Moss Malala's Magic Pencil by Malala Yousafzai The Right Word by Jen Bryant The Boy Who Loved Math by Deborah Heiligman Wangari's Trees of Peace by Jeanette Winter One Plastic Bag by Miranda Paul