Some More Palmyra History

Here's some sports related history, in honor of the Phillies first trip to the World Series in 15 years.
Lena Blackburne was a Major League Baseball Player during the early part of the 20th century, who later went on to be a coach for the Philadelphia Athletics. In 1938, while he was a coach, an umpire made a comment to him about the awful condition of the baseballs. When Blackburne returned to his home (on Cinnaminson Avenue in Palmyra!), he went searching along the tributaries of the Delaware River in search of mud or clay that he could rub on the baseballs to remove the sheen.

To this day, 70 years later, each team in baseball purchases a can of "Blackburne's Mud" at the start of the season. The location of the mud is a highly guarded secret, but it comes from somewhere in our area.