Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Infield Mixes, Vol. 1

The old baseball adage is that when everyone starts talking about the Super Bowl, baseball season must be close. Well, Super Bowl XLIV is a relatively big topic of conversation in Indianapolis and it is snowing outside, so what a better time to talk about infields!

Welcome to the first of a string of volumes regarding infield mixes for baseball and softball fields. The goal of this section of entries to the blog is to breakdown infields in the following manner:

1. Basic overview
2. What makes up mixes?
3. EST/SCR
4. Drainage for infields?
5. Laser grade an infield?
6. Topdressing for infields?
7. How to add new infield material to existing material
8. Edging – In season and pre-season
9. “Lip” controls
10. Pre-season maintenance
11. In-season maintenance
12. Post-season maintenance

Let’s get moving, pitchers and catchers report to most big league camps in 25 days.

Play on!
--Jamie

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