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Bulldog are you saying by dirt IF you mean the skinned ones like softball uses? If so then I say NEVER to those. I had to play on one in high school back in the early 90's and we worked like dogs on it if it rained. I think it's harder to keep a smooth crown on it because of erosion and if you do the whole ditch to drain puddles it just messes up the field. Grass all the way. I love the look of a great field with dirt basepaths but it's a lot easier to maintain if you make those grass as well. I can't go with you j2 on the whole grass IF except for the circles around the bags, mound and plate. Looks too much like astroturf to me. I bet it would be easier to maintain though.
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| Posts: 1992 | Location: Started in WV - then to KY - now in NC | Registered: May 12, 2006 | |
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We currently have a grass infield with the dirt basepaths. One school near us who has the full dirt infield nearly never has a rainout. They've got a full infield tarp so they can cover the dirt and leave it there. With a grass infield, you wouldn't be able to just leave it there. Our school is going to building new fields in the next couple years. The JV field will likely be full dirt, but the varsity field is still up in the air. They've talked about not setting up water with the new fields so our coach has said he plans to go with a full dirt infield until he's given water. Our current field is doing away with the dirt basepaths. Our coach has decided that they are too much work!
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| Posts: 1350 | Location: Waterloo, IL--Cape Girardeau, MO | Registered: February 05, 2006 | |
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As a baseball purist I hate dirt infields. We see them in tournament travel. I went to the source, the players. They say the dirt infields properly groomed provide a truer bounce than most grass fields. Then again, my son the commie likes playing on turf due to the true bounce and how fast he runs on turf (ran a 6.8 sixty on turf as a high school freshman). The first time he stoled second on turf he slide ten feet past the bag. He was nearly ejected for coming into the second baseman so hard. He wiped out the fielder and kept on going. The ump did ask if he had played on turf before before deciding not to toss him.
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| Posts: 3686 | Location: Mid-Atlantic | Registered: October 29, 2007 | |
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quote: Originally posted by Bulldog 19:
We currently have a grass infield with the dirt basepaths. One school near us who has the full dirt infield nearly never has a rainout. They've got a full infield tarp so they can cover the dirt and leave it there. With a grass infield, you wouldn't be able to just leave it there.
Our school is going to building new fields in the next couple years. The JV field will likely be full dirt, but the varsity field is still up in the air. They've talked about not setting up water with the new fields so our coach has said he plans to go with a full dirt infield until he's given water.
Our current field is doing away with the dirt basepaths. Our coach has decided that they are too much work!
All dirt for a high school field? Don’t do it! But if the coach does not want to deal with taking a tarp on or off and does not want to deal with the maintenance you should look at a all turf field, obviously it will be much more expensive up front... |
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| Posts: 1398 | Location: CA | Registered: March 12, 2003 | |
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quote: All dirt for a high school field? Don’t do it!
Would you prefer all dirt intentionally or dead grass for an infield that might as well be dirt? Like I said, the only reason he'd go with an all-dirt infield is because of the lack of water. And yeah.. I don't think we'll EVER see Field Turf on our baseball field. Heck, I don't know if we'll get it for the football field. It makes too much sense... if they put Field Turf on the football field, they'll also use it for s****r (instead of building a separate s****r field for games), the baseball and softball teams can practice there in the spring, and PE could use it! And it would be two less fields that would need water constantly!!
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| Posts: 1350 | Location: Waterloo, IL--Cape Girardeau, MO | Registered: February 05, 2006 | |
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