<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Ron Nossaman <<a href="mailto:rnossaman@cox.net">rnossaman@cox.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> I've yet to get a name for this stuff. It's black and sticky, and from around 1976. Anyone know? Ron N </blockquote></div> No. I've seen it before, also, but not sure where it comes from. Is there black butt "leather" or leather substitute such as escaine or ecsaine (can never remember which is correct) or similar material on the catchers? I wonder if the butt leather is impregnated with some kind of black powdery stuff. I also run into Kawais where the catcher buckskin really fuzzes up and sheds all over the catchers and backchecks, making a similar mess, but from a different source. --David Nereson, RPT