Baseball Knowledge Base 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 YEA ...

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 ...

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" ba ...

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 drawi ...

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 ($39.9 ...

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 ...

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 possib ...

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 ...

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 ha ...

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 gam ...

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 hitti ...

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 als ...

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 upgr ...

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 ye ...

Field Size - Scorekeeper (length=7190)
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 wou ...

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. Howev ...

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 "feath ...

Repairing an Old Field - Scorekeeper (length=6885)
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 th ...

Sharing ballfields/follow up/there I went again - concerned (length=1850)
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 t ...

Sharing ballfields - concerned (length=1063)
Our county parks board gave public park property to a travel ballteam organization a few years ago. They have exclusive use of the faciliti ...

diamond maintenance - Scorekeeper (length=12643)
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: ...