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A Quality Baseball Field - Let Your Coaching Efforts Stand Out! |
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| Just use this site and you’re guaranteed a quality baseball field. Everything is talked about – figuring out what to do, getting funding, getting it done, case studies from youth to collegiate, essential tips, etc. |
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Baseball Field Maintenance Essentials |
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It’s
better to carefully select beforehand the specifics and wrap them around
a plan that incorporates the right materials, equipment, and labor to
get it done.
Let’s look at some basic ‘need to know’ information first, and then some choices for whipping your field into shape. |
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| Getting
Started - there's a lot to do, how do I begin? It’s better to do a little planning before you start. That way you'll incorporate the right materials, equipment, and labor to get your baseball field maintenance job done. Let’s look at some basic ‘need to know’ information first, and then some choices for whipping your field into shape. |
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Field Turf as healthy and as smooth as a golf course. Make your bounces dependable. 85% of the game occurs in the infield. This section covers everything you need for mowing, edging the grass, aerating, top dressing, seeding, sod, fertilizing, dragging, watering, sanding, and rolling… including tips and common mistakes. |
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Field Dirt Areas – true, consistent, and good footing. This
is where most of the infield action is… on the dirt. But it’s
care is often an after thought. This section covers everything you need for infield mix analysis and correction, warning track material, dragging, rolling, and watering… including tips and common mistakes. |
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| Official
Baseball Field Diagrams and Dimensions. Use the regulation
field dimensions for youth, high school, and college.
Make sure you do the job right with these diagrams. You
can use these for the base cutouts, base paths when edging, areas around
the mound and home plate, and the infield skin. |
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| Equipment
Reviews. Rental machines make the job of baseball field maintenance
a lot easier. But, not all makes and models are easy to use.
I’m sure you don’t want to end up wrestling with equipment or suffer the disappointment of a job taking longer than it should. Experience shows that equipment selection can be critical. Read the reviews and case studies. |
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| Products
and Suppliers. Proven products and suppliers that know what
a baseball field needs. Best sources for grass seed, fertilizer, rental equipment, infield dirt, sod, and tools |
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| Pre-Season
Audit & Check Up. Conduct this pre-season, mid-season and
pre- tournaments / championships You should thoroughly audit your baseball field before starting your season’s activities. And frequent in-season inspections are also helpful. This audit form can be used for a comprehensive audit or for an in-season of postseason inspection. Then you’ll know what your maintenance or renovation plans are. |
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| Daily
and Annual Baseball Field Maintenance Checklists. Post the
checklists in each dugout for reference by the grounds keeper, coaches and
players. Checklists can be used as a helpful guide to develop a proper maintenance routine. These checklists can be modified to meet the specific needs of each field. |
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Gallery. Projects you can learn from – a visual how to guide.
Maintenance,
facelift, and renovation projects for little league, PONY, high school,
college, private school, public school, and park districts. Baseball
Field Renovation and Reconstruction. Normal maintenance practices can rejuvenate a tired or worn out field. But your field might have a hump 60 feet in diameter from 50 years of washing the mound dirt out on the grass. Or the mound material is nothing but decomposed granite that disintegrates no matter how hard you work on it. |
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Baseball
Field Maintenance goofs that turn your stomach Avoid project failure. Lessons learned so these don’t
happen to you also: equipment failures, sprinklers that get stuck, deliveries
to the wrong place, someone else gets your delivery, it rains, someone
forgets the hitch, etc. Funding - $$$. Make your own field of dreams. Find out how to get materials and equipment steeply discounted or donated. Do a $30,000 job for as little as $2,000, if not entirely for free. I’ll show you how to do this. A consultant could build you a new baseball field or totally scrape your existing field and start over. You’d be looking at a minimum of $150,000 and more likely closer to $250,000 by the time you are done. Get something nice that doesn’t break the bank! I include my favorite suppliers and sources of cash donations. Article Archive. Dig through this growing treasure of tips and hints. |
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| About
Us The Ultimate Baseball Field Renovation Guide provides free, valuable tips that coaches, players, and parents need to build and maintain better ball fields. We provide tips in the areas of baseball field maintenance techniques, field equipment and materials, and project planning and funding. Read more... |
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From the Bookstore Transforming Your Baseball Field into a Winning Field A 95 page
"How-To" Baseball Field Maintenance Handbook to Give Your Players
the Opportunity to Play Their Best and Make Your Own Field of Dreams.
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