英语词汇lena blackburne rubbing mud的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Lena Blackburne Rubbing Mud. Perhaps the only mud named after a person. Lena “Slats” Blackburne managed the Chicago White Sox in the 1920s and 1930s. He found a Dela- ware River mud close by his New Jersey home that seemed bet- ter than other muds umpires rubbed on baseballs to make new balls less slippery and easier to grip when introduced in a game. His mud was in fact so good that it was packaged commercially as Lena Blackburne Rubbing Mud and eventually became the official mud of the American and National Leagues.

词汇	lena blackburne rubbing mud
词源	Lena Blackburne Rubbing Mud. Perhaps the only mud named after a person. Lena “Slats” Blackburne managed the Chicago White Sox in the 1920s and 1930s. He found a Dela- ware River mud close by his New Jersey home that seemed bet- ter than other muds umpires rubbed on baseballs to make new balls less slippery and easier to grip when introduced in a game. His mud was in fact so good that it was packaged commercially as Lena Blackburne Rubbing Mud and eventually became the official mud of the American and National Leagues.
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