The Dirt

In baseball, apparently dirt is a crucial substance. So crucial that one NJ "farmer" makes his living from selling dirt to the major (and minor) league. I must say I had no idea. The thought never occurred to me when watching a baseball game, "From whence cometh the dirt?" I knew that the mud used to treat the balls comes from NJ, but I had no idea NJ, which doesn't have a major league team (and let's keep it that way), was the source of so much major league dirt. Of course considering the state of politics in my native state there is a certain logic to this...