Maintaining and Building Baseball Fields - Baseball Article Summaries

Center Field Distance - ERIC (length=747)
SEVERAL LL'S HAVE RESORTED TO EXTENDING THE FENCES UPWARD IN INCREMENTS OF 4, 6 OR 8FT. THIS DECREASES THE HOME RUN % BECAUSE MOST 11-12 YEAR OLDS DO NOT GET THE HEIGHT OF A 13-14 YEAR OLD. AN ADDITIO ...

Pitchers Mound - Gordon (length=433)
Hi Randy, pitching mounds vary in size according to the ages of the players also their leagues. for example L.L. Majors & Minors mounds are the same, their age groups range from 7-12 . PONY is differe ...

field maintenance - Seadog (length=1668)
Jon, I maintain a 4 field complex 2 with grass infields and 60ft. bases, and 2 with skinned infields 1 tball size and 1 with up to 90" bases.I take care of the fields and snack shack/bathroom buildin ...

Building a baseball field - Joe Zander (length=6290)
I agree with John Saunders, the Floyd Perry books are full of great ideas. No matter what your budget is, start by making a design drawing of the field that you want to build. One thing you that wil ...

Building a baseball field - John Saunders (length=320)
I'd recommend the Pictorial Guide to Quality Groundskeeping with Floyd Perry. It comes in two books. Book 1 - Covering All the Bases ($39.95) and Book 2 - There Ain't No Rules ($39.95). They are avai ...

Diamond Dry - Joe Zander (length=869)
Using Diamond Dry, I have no experience. We use Turface. Another manager showed me a simple trick a couple season's back that works well. In the low-spot areas where the water pools, dug a hole in the ...

Practice Fields and Indoor Practice - Ed Knapp (length=356)
I could run a practice in an abandon lot. First I would have my pitchers use the 2x4 drill that Dick Mills' talks so highly about. If possible get some mirrors for both pitchers and hitters to see the ...

Practice Fields and Indoor Practice - Jerry Hart (length=2136)
(1) Plan it BEFORE bad weather forces you to do it. (2) Understand WHY you are doing it. You are not going to get much baseball instruction or practice done(at least not obviously.) the main purpose o ...

Practice Fields and Indoor Practice - Jerry Hart (length=1349)
Sorry about that Ron. You asked for the time and I told you how to build a watch(and a watch factory.) A couple of times last spring I had to switch my practice from the field to an elementary school ...

Practice Fields and Indoor Practice - Jerry Hart (length=2734)
Wow! You have a "complex" to play on and elementary school playgrounds to practice on? I wish my league had a "complex." We play all our games on 13 elementary school and 3 middle school playgrounds. ...

Practice Fields and Indoor Practice - Richard Todd (length=753)
There are only two aspects of baseball practice that really need a "regulation sized" space. 1) Pitching from the mound. 2) A home-run hitting derby :-) Anything else can be done on any field where yo ...

Practice Fields and Indoor Practice - Ron Sewell (length=584)
We have a total of 8 fields at our complex. One for tee-ball thru 8/9, one for 11/12, one for 13/14 and one the high school plays on. We also have 4 softball fields for girls softball and adult softba ...

Practice Fields and Indoor Practice - Wayne (length=1290)
The youth league I was involved with for many years solved thier practice problem this way. We approached the schools with the offer to upgrade the fields with clay and other items. The schools then s ...

Field Maintenance - Soil Additives - Scorekeeper (length=10349)
It isn't the powdery substance that makes it work, its the constant care! I've been maintaining our LL 60 and 90' field for more than 6 years and there's only one secret. Whenever anyone used the fiel ...

Field Size - Scorekeeper (length=7189)
I sure don’t want this to come of as sounding like I’m condemning your efforts in any way! I’d give my eye teeth if even one parent here would show that kind of interest and enthusiasm. However, I fee ...

Make the clay wider? - Scorekeeper (length=3534)
Well, poke me in the eye with a sharp stick! I wuz about as far wrong as I could possibly be! What you propose would of course work. However, I strongly caution anyone who gets out there with a sod cu ...

Repairing an Old Field - Scorekeeper (length=3260)
It doesn't matter how sloped it is, you can keep applying sand and eventually you'll raise it. The only trick is to make sure it gets "feathered". I.e. the low spots get lots and the high get none. My ...

Repairing an Old Field - Scorekeeper (length=6884)
Yah Hoo! My favorite kind of question! Ist things 1st. I don't care if you're in the Sahara Desert, if you're gonna be playin' baseball there and you can't afford to miss many games, IT WILL RAIN! My ...

Sharing ballfields/follow up/there I went again - concerned (length=1839)
I think the reason the parks board has not been willing to negotiate with LL is because they did not believe we could hold an organization together to be successful. At the county facility that former ...

Sharing ballfields - concerned (length=1054)
Our county parks board gave public park property to a travel ballteam organization a few years ago. They have exclusive use of the facilities by erecting a locked gate around the fields. The board was ...

diamond maintenance - Scorekeeper (length=12642)
Don’t feel bad about askin’. At least a couple times a year someone asks, and I’m always glad to help as are others. How Lips Form: There’s only one way a lip shows up on a field. Somehow, IF dirt get ...