Baseball Field Maintenance.

Putting the baseball field to bed ready to play each winter is key to an early start in the spring. The typical opening day in Major League Baseball is April 1 to April 9.

Spring field preparations are aimed at producing conditions as near perfect as possible for opening day. Working closely with me toward that goal on the new Pittsburgh Pirates field are two topnotch assistants: Steve Erickson and Rich Hook.

Our new field spent the winter covered with an Evergreen tarp. In our spring start-up timetable, we planned to remove the tarp around March 1, weather permitting, ...

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